Today Quincy Larson interviews Carl Brown, who runs the Internet of Bugs YouTube channel and has worked as a dev at Amazon, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and startups for over 37 years. We talk about: The h

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A freeCodeCamp podcast interview with Carl Brown (Internet of Bugs YouTube channel), a developer with 37+ years of experience at Amazon, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. Topics covered include the hype vs. utility of LLMs and AI code generation tools, why smaller companies may be better targets for developer jobs, ageism in tech and consulting as a career escape hatch, and why integration testing is the most critical developer skill. The episode also references the Karpathy/MoltBook security breach saga, LLMs being used for fuzzing and zero-day discovery, and common programmer misconceptions about names and time.

The ultimate dev skill is Integration Testing – Podcast interview with Internet of Bugs [Podcast #209]