Sam Odio
Facebook, Dropbox, Plow
Sam has built startups across consumer software and AI, most recently as Sr. Director of New Initiatives at Dropbox.
Leading AI developers come on to show what they are shipping and the open source tools behind it. Sam Odio and Tom Preston-Werner install the software with them and demo it live.
Browse episodesSam has built startups across consumer software and AI, most recently as Sr. Director of New Initiatives at Dropbox.
Tom co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, SemVer, and TOML. Tom is an active investor at PWV Ventures, but on the show he is the student: world-class builders teach him their latest AI tools live.
Open-source veteran Jesse Vincent built Superpowers, currently the #1 developer plugin for Claude Code. He offers Tom the chance to use it to rewrite GitHub, Tom accepts the challenge.
Humans quickly get sick of doing code reviews, but AI never tires. Data tooling visionary Wes McKinney comes on the show to discuss Roborev, his latest project to keep agents busy doing code reviews continuously in the background.
Why use one agent when you can use 10? Harper Reed’s Test Kitchen gives several agents the same spec, tests the results, and lets the working code decide. On the show, we discuss when parallel agents help, when they just burn tokens, and why the first answer is rarely the best one.
Naveen Jain starts companies aimed at problems most people call impossible: gut health at Viome, lunar payloads at Moon Express. He thinks in moonshots and moves fast. On the show, he shows how AI fits the way he runs several bets at once.
What happens when you stop treating agents like chatbots and start putting them to work across an entire project? Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw and founder of PSPDFKit, comes on the show to walk through his setup and show Tom how he keeps agents moving across a project.
Developers don’t need more AI tools. They need ones that work. Logan Kilpatrick has helped developers adopt them at OpenAI and now builds them at Google. On the show, he talks with Sam and Tom about which tools solve real problems and which are mostly hype.
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