The BugBash Podcast
Episodes
Programming as an Act of Building Vocabulary
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why do LLMs struggle to build complex architecture? According to Unmesh Joshi, Distinguished Engineer at ThoughtWorks, it often comes down to a lack ...
The Dollar Bet that Fuzzed Figma: Exploding Laptops and UI Reliability with Jonathan Chan
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can you stress-test a React UI completely hands-free? In this episode, Oskar Wickström and I are joined by Jonathan Chan to discuss the origins of Fu...
Semmathesy and the Agentic Era: Learning Systems in 2026
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With the "Agentic Era" coming online, teams are onboarding new AI "minions" into our codebases every thirty minutes. So a critical...
From Scale to Rigor: An Engineering Journey at Meta and Oxide
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re talking with Rain from Oxide Computing, tracing their journey from the massive, data-driven scale of Meta to the high-stakes, air-gapp...
Escaping the Spaghetti: How to Test Untestable Codebases
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone wants reliable software. But nobody wants to test messy legacy code. Today, Lewis Campbell from Outdata joins the show to share a practical a...
How rr Became a Protected Species: A Story of Necessary Hacks
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Building the rr replay debugger wasn't about academic purity. It was about survival.Today, creator Rob O'Callahan reveals the "necessary”...
Re-Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Shift to Cloud-Native Storage
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been nine years since Designing Data-Intensive Applications became the standard text for distributed systems. Today, Martin Kleppmann and Chris...
Hypothesis vs. Hallucinations: Property Testing AI-Generated Code
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Large Language Models can generate code in a flash, but that code is notoriously unreliable. Traditional unit tests often can’t put enough guardrail...
From the Lab to Production: Making Cutting-Edge Testing Practical
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Software testing research is exploding, but in practice, most companies' testing approaches seem stuck in the past. Where does that gap come from?...
Ergonomics, reliability, durability
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Integrating non-deterministic, non-durable elements like AI agents into our workflows tends to lead to a lot of do-overs. But restarting AI processes ...
No actually, you can property test your UI
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you test for bugs that only appear when a user clicks frantically, or when asynchronous data loads in an unexpected order? Standard UI tests of...
Slow down to go fast: TDD in the age of AI with Clare Sudbery
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI coding assistants promise incredible speed, but what happens when you run straight into a wall of buggy code and technical debt?In this episode, Cl...
Fixing five "two-year" bugs per day
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some bugs are so rare, they can take years to track down and fix. What if you could find and fix five of them per day? For Joran Dirk Greef, the crea...
No really, some bugs aren’t real
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When is a bug not really a bug? In this episode, host David Wynn talks with SRE veteran Dan Slimmon about a radical idea: chasing perfect code might n...
Every map is wrong, but we made one anyway
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every map of a complex territory is inherently wrong, but without one, we're completely lost. So what happens when the territory is the vast, ever...
Fail loudly, fail fast, fail in production
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is it just a fact of life that software is broken? Our industry often operates as if the answer is "yes." We write tests, we fix bugs, but w...
Scaling Correctness: Marc Brooker on a Decade of Formal Methods at AWS
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you prove the correctness of services that underpin a huge portion of the internet? At the scale of Amazon Web Services, traditional testing ...
FoundationDB: From Idea to Apple Acquisition
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The BugBash Podcast kicks off with a bit of pre-history -- the story of FoundationDB, one of the first companies to successfully use deterministic sim...