Charlie Marsh (@charliermarsh) is the founder of Astral, the Python devtool startup that was acquired by OpenAI. I inteviewed him about how software engineering is changing and learnings from starting his own company as an engineer.
In this episode:
• Full codebase language migrations using AI
• LLM generated code impact on open source
• Performance optimizations and Rust
• How to hit the front page of Hacker News
• Learnings from starting a company as an engineer
Where to watch:
• YouTube - piped.video/Iw65FD4MGgs
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• Transcript - developing.dev/p/openai-eng-…
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Origin story
06:04 - The front page of Hacker News
14:35 - Why he chose Rust
20:10 - Full codebase migration from Zig to Rust
28:40 - LLM generated code and open source
35:34 - Performance optimizations
44:54 - Optimization with AI and combating slop
01:02:08 - Learnings as an eng starting a company
01:17:55 - Top technical talk recommendation
01:18:56 - Advice for his younger self
01:22:00 - Outro
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