Jerod Santo is leaving Changelog. After years as co-host, Santo officially retired from the podcast on this episode of Changelog Friends, recorded alongside Adam Stacoviak. The departure is real, not a hiatus.
The news segment covers ground worth tracking: Ladybird browser adopting Rust with AI assistance, the JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (OXC) seeking sponsors, Wes McKinney's piece on the Mythical Agent-Month, and a Citrini Research report projecting a 2028 global intelligence crisis. Boris Tane's argument that the Software Development Lifecycle is dead also gets airtime. These are not surface-level takes.
Changelog++ subscribers get 16 additional minutes not available in the public feed. The show notes link directly to every source discussed, including the OXC compiler at oxc.rs, McKinney's blog, and Zed's new Agent Client Protocol spec. If you have followed Santo's run on Changelog, this is the episode to hear in full.
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