Jerod Santo is leaving Changelog. On episode 129 of Changelog and Friends, Santo officially retires from the podcast alongside co-host Adam Stacoviak, closing out a run that defined one of tech's longest-running developer podcasts. The episode also covers real news: Ladybird adopting Rust with AI assistance, the JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (OXC) from Boshen Chen, a Reddit thread on engineers preferring on-prem, and Wes McKinney's piece on the limits of AI agents, titled 'The Mythical Agent-Month.'
The episode is worth reading, or rather listening to, in full because the news segments are substantive. Boris Tane's argument that the Software Development Lifecycle is dead, Citrini Research's 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis report, and Zed's Agent Client Protocol all get time. These are not surface-level mentions. Changelog++ subscribers get a bonus 16 minutes with no ads, which is where the real conversation likely happens.
What comes next for Changelog without Santo is the open question. Stacoviak continues. The show notes are on GitHub and PRs are open, which says something about how this operation runs even at the end of an era.
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