After five years and 101 episodes, we're doing something we never thought we'd do: renaming the podcast. The Agile Embedded Podcast is now the Pragmatic Embedded Podcast: having the title reflect where we've been heading for quite a while.
After five years and 101 episodes, we're doing something we never thought we'd do: renaming the podcast. The Agile Embedded Podcast is now the Pragmatic Embedded Podcast: having the title reflect where we've been heading for quite a while.
Jeff and Luca discuss why the word "agile" has become cringe-worthy, how the podcast has naturally evolved beyond its original scope, and what this means for future episodes. We talk about the reality of AI adoption in embedded development (spoiler: it's not as widespread as you might think), the importance of engineering fundamentals in an AI-assisted world, and why we're excited to explore topics without feeling constrained by our old name. This is still the same podcast you know, just with a name that finally fits what we actually do: exploring pragmatic approaches to building embedded systems.
"I have literally been cringing internally for a long time saying Agile, Agile, Agile. And I'm just really looking forward to broadening the focus and not feeling bad about it." — Jeff
"My customers never buy the curly brackets, do they? There's a lot of good old-fashioned engineering craft that we can talk about and that we'll continue to talk about." — Luca
"Writing curly braces is going the way of being dead. But software engineering fundamentals, essentially, I see the trend... every developer is going to be essentially what is now a lead developer." — Jeff