Beyond The Build
Beyond The Build is a podcast about the real, unfiltered experiences of being a software engineer. Hosted by two seasoned engineers, Uma and Ope, we dive into the highs, the lows, and everything in between—from career growth and technical challenges to work-life balance and industry insights. Whether you're an aspiring developer or a seasoned pro, join us as we explore the parts of tech that don’t get talked about enough.
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Latest Episodes
OpenAI Slashed Prices 80% | The Real Reason They're Panicking | LWIT
OpenAI didn't just cut prices they slashed Luna by 86% and Terra by 20% in a single move. That's not a sale. It's what happens when open-weight models from China race past you while Anthropic's Claude quietly takes the crown without firing a sh...
Gumroad Now Spends as Much on AI as It Does on Employees | LWIT
In this episode, we discussed how OpenAI's model escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, why open-weight models are now 50x cheaper, and what Big Tech's $1.65T indirect AI bet means for the future.OpenAI's model didn't just pass a ...
Kimi K3 AI Model is Literally INSANE! (Free) | LWIT
This episode of Last Week In Tech delivered chaos on every front. A Chinese model nobody expected just flipped the coding leaderboard, and the gap between East and West is now thinner than most engineers want to admit. But here's the really cre...
Companies Are Now Paying $10,000/Week to Fix AI Code | LWIT
OpenAI just dropped GPT 5.6, and it's already changing the game, but not in the way most developers expected. While the model itself delivers better coding performance at a lower cost than Anthropic, the real story this week isn't about benchma...
Hiring for junior developers dropped 20%. Here’s what nobody is telling you.
This week on Last Week in Tech episode, we discussed: Anthropic just re-released a model the US government told them to pull. OpenAI dropped GPT 5 but only to 20 companies. In this episode, Uma and Ope break down what these staggered launches r...