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Software engineering at Google & CS education with Titus Winters

aired Oct 29, 2026 · 100.0m
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Summary

What if an engineer who helped define the contents of today's software engineering curriculum said that most of this should be burnt down?.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, right, know, including: An ex-Google software engineer says exactly this.

Key takeaways
  1. 01In today's conversation, we discuss why Google made tests mandatory around 2006 after the flagship search product could no longer be released on a regular cadence due to persistent
  2. 02Ways to measure developer productivity and why the value of AI does not show up in the metrics that we measure today
  3. 03Ways that Titus would change computer science education, including why they'd want students to be graded on their prompts and tests, not the code
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