complexity.fm Podcast
complexity.fm is a podcast about technology, podcasting, and more.
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📄 Show Notes In this episode of complexity.fm, Bas Steins and Michal Martinka sit down with Brandon Bayer, founder of Flightcontrol and creator of Blitz.js, to talk about the messy reality of deploying to AWS without a DevOps team. Brandon walks through why he built Flightcontrol as a Heroku alternative that deploys directly into your own AWS account, why the product ended up being "too limiting" after years of growth, and why he and his co-founder decided to rebuild everything from scratch with a new product called Ravion. The conversation dives deep into platform engineering, Terraform vs O
📄 Show Notes In this episode of complexity.fm, Bas Steins and Michal Martinka sit down with Dominik Sumer, the solo developer behind Snapify and Vimetric, to talk about a decade of building products in public and what happens when that playbook stops working. Dominik walks through how Snapify started as a Stack Overflow clone that flopped, then pivoted into a viral code-snippet-to-video editor built almost entirely through building-in-public momentum on old Twitter. He explains why that same strategy feels broken today, how AI-generated "one shot this" content has flooded social feeds and kil
📄 Show Notes Python Is Not Enough: Why Pythonistas Are Falling in Love with Rust In this episode of complexity.fm, hosts Bas Steins and Michal Martinka sit down with Bob Belderbos — Python veteran, educator, and coach with over 20 years of software development experience. Bob shares his journey from Sun Microsystems sysadmin to co-founding PyBites, to now coaching developers one-on-one and in cohorts on Python, agentic AI, and Rust. We dive deep into why the Python community is increasingly drawn to Rust, what AI is really doing to how developers learn, and whether vibe coding is a superpower
📄 Show Notes In this first episode of complexity.fm, Bas and Michal sit down with AI consultant and educator Isaac Flath to get real about AI-assisted coding. Is it actually making senior developers faster? Is vibe coding dead on arrival for production systems? And why is memory still the unsolved problem at the heart of every AI product? No hype, no dogma — just three experienced practitioners comparing notes. Isaac's AI Engineering Community on Skool https://www.skool.com/ai-eng/about Isaac Flath's website and blog http://isaacflath.com Next-PLAID retrieval benchmark (LightOn AI) https://li
