Beyond The Build
Beyond The Build is a podcast about the real, unfiltered experiences of being a software engineer. Hosted by two seasoned engineers, Uma and Ope, we dive into the highs, the lows, and everything in between—from career growth and technical challenges to work-life balance and industry insights. Whether you're an aspiring developer or a seasoned pro, join us as we explore the parts of tech that don’t get talked about enough.
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Episodes
57 episodes
The US Is Blocking H1B & Green Card Sponsorship for Some Big Tech Companies
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AI Plan Mode Is Dead. What Developers Are Doing Instead | LWIT
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Is Polymarket A Money Laundering Machine? | LWIT
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Scams, Surveillance, Cyber Warfare: What The Dark Web Has Been Up To With AI | LWIT
Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down Anthropic’s latest AI misuse report and look at how bad acto...
Apparently AI Might Kill Us. Anyway, Here’s a PR | LWIT
Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9In this episode of Beyond The Build, we talk about the growing wave of AI safety warnings coming from researche...
AI Just Changed the Rules of Software Security | LWIT
Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9AI is changing software security faster than most engineering teams are prepared for.In this episode of ...
Why Developers Have to Start Caring About Memory | LWIT
Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9This week on Last Week in Tech, we’re talking about what happens when memory gets expensive and software can’t ...
Why Lovable.dev Migrated From Next.js (And It Worked)
In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down some of the biggest AI and software engineering stories from the week, including Anthropic’s explosive revenue growth, Cursor’s new Git hosting platform, Lovable moving away from Next.js...
Prediction Markets Are the New Retirement Plans (401k)? | LWIT
In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down some of the most interesting stories happening across AI, software engineering, and the broader tech industry.We talk about AI agents moving into the browser, the growing US-China...
The Unlimited Token Budget Was Never Going to Last | LWIT
Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down some of the biggest stories in tech this week, from Microsof...
OpenAI Slashed Prices 80% | The Real Reason They're Panicking | LWIT
OpenAI didn't just cut prices they slashed Luna by 86% and Terra by 20% in a single move. That's not a sale. It's what happens when open-weight models from China race past you while Anthropic's Claude quietly takes the crown without firing a sh...
Gumroad Now Spends as Much on AI as It Does on Employees | LWIT
In this episode, we discussed how OpenAI's model escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, why open-weight models are now 50x cheaper, and what Big Tech's $1.65T indirect AI bet means for the future.OpenAI's model didn't just pass a ...
Kimi K3 AI Model is Literally INSANE! (Free) | LWIT
This episode of Last Week In Tech delivered chaos on every front. A Chinese model nobody expected just flipped the coding leaderboard, and the gap between East and West is now thinner than most engineers want to admit. But here's the really cre...
Companies Are Now Paying $10,000/Week to Fix AI Code | LWIT
OpenAI just dropped GPT 5.6, and it's already changing the game, but not in the way most developers expected. While the model itself delivers better coding performance at a lower cost than Anthropic, the real story this week isn't about benchma...
Hiring for junior developers dropped 20%. Here’s what nobody is telling you.
This week on Last Week in Tech episode, we discussed: Anthropic just re-released a model the US government told them to pull. OpenAI dropped GPT 5 but only to 20 companies. In this episode, Uma and Ope break down what these staggered launches r...
Meta Was Tracking Employee Keystrokes to Build Their Replacements | LWIT
Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9This week on Last Week in Tech: a $100M fintech disaster that tricked millions of Americans, Polymarket's fake gambling website exposed by college influe...
LWIT: A Singel Web Page Can Hijack Your AI Agent
Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ArticlesAI Agent Hijack: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/06/18/autojack-...
LWIT: The US Government Ordered Anthropic To Take Down Fable
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LWIT: AI Is Creating a Generation of Bad Engineers
Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9Beyond The Basics With Claude Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuY2ChJIx48Google Is Paying SpaceX To Use Its GPU: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
LWIT: AI Is Creating a New Class of Elite Engineers
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LWIT: Software Engineering May No Longer Be A Lifetime Career
Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9ArticlesAWS Overheating: https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/aws-outage-explained-may-2026-data-center-overheatingOpenAI buying tools: https://medium.c...
LWIT: MAANG Companies Now Let You Use AI in Interviews.
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LWIT: An AI Agent Deleted a Company’s Database in 9 Seconds
In this episode, we break down one of the wildest stories in tech right now — an AI agent wiping out an entire production database in seconds — and what that says about the systems we’re building.But that’s just the beginning.We also di...