# larson interviews (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover larson interviews. Page: Feed: --- ## [#217 Stanford's youngest instructor on InfoSec, AI, catching cheaters - Rachel Fernandez](https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/217-stanfords-youngest-instructor-on-infosec-ai-catching-cheaters-rachel-fernandez) _2026-05-19 · The freeCodeCamp Podcast_ Today Quincy Larson interviews Rachel An Fernandez. She's a computer science student at Stanford and the youngest instructor at the entire university. She recently helped organize TreeHacks, Stanford's annual hackathon, which narrowed 15,000 applicants down to just 1,000 participants. They built projects over a single weekend and competed for a million dollars in prizes. Rachel grew up in… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/freecodecamp/rachel.mp3?dest-id=603849) ## [#216 How to friction-max your learning with software engineer Jessica Rose](https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/216-how-to-friction-max-your-learning-with-software-engineer-jessica-rose) _2026-04-17 · The freeCodeCamp Podcast_ Today Quincy Larson interviews Jessica Rose. She's a dev and teacher who's worked on open data projects at Mozilla and lots of open source projects. We talk about: - How the whole world is hard, and how embracing that difficulty rather than avoiding it can make you a better thinker - The Bad Website club, a free online bootcamp where people learn front end development together that starts this… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/freecodecamp/barbara.mp3?dest-id=603849) ## [#215 How to learn programming and CS in the AI hype era – interview with dev and prof Mark Mahoney](https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/215-how-to-learn-programming-and-cs-in-the-ai-hype-era-interview-with-dev-and-prof-mark-mahoney) _2026-04-10 · The freeCodeCamp Podcast_ Today Quincy Larson interviews Mark Mahoney. He worked as a dev before becoming a computer science professor. He's taught computer science for 23 years at Carthage College, a 180-year-old US university. He's also taught thousands of developers through his free programming courses built on top of his own open source course platform, Playback Press. We talk about: - Why learning programming the hard… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/freecodecamp/mark.mp3?dest-id=603849) ## [#214 Lessons from 15,031 hours of coding live on Twitch with Chris Griffing](https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/214-lessons-from-15031-hours-of-coding-live-on-twitch-with-chris-griffing) _2026-04-03 · The freeCodeCamp Podcast_ Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Griffing is a software engineer and prolific streamer of live coding on Twitch. He spent 10 years as a "snowboard bum" doing odd jobs at ski resorts to facilitate him spending as much time on the mountain as possible. At age 28 he taught himself PHP programming and started building websites for friends. In 2018 he started streaming himself programming on… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/freecodecamp/chris2.mp3?dest-id=603849) ## [#213 What happens when the model CAN'T fix it? Interview with software engineer Landon Gray](https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/213-what-happens-when-the-model-cant-fix-it-interview-with-software-engineer-landon-gray) _2026-03-27 · The freeCodeCamp Podcast_ Today Quincy Larson interviews Landon Gray. He's a software engineer who worked at agencies for years. Then he taught himself AI assisted software development. And now he's helping other devs do the same. Landon's famous for proving that RAG pipelines can be written in Ruby and popularizing Ruby as a language for building machine learning projects. He works as an AI Engineer at a enterprise… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/freecodecamp/landon.mp3?dest-id=603849) ## [#212 The world still needs people who care - CodePen founder Chris Coyier interview](https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/212-the-world-still-needs-people-who-care-codepen-founder-chris-coyier-interview) _2026-03-20 · The freeCodeCamp Podcast_ Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Coyier. He's a front-end developer and co-founder of CodePen and the CSS Tricks blog. He has also recorded more than 700 podcasts about software engineering. We talk about: - How he thinks front-end development tools are 90% of the way to where they need to be - How developing for the web is "just as good as mobile, and you can reuse it everywhere." - And why… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/freecodecamp/christ.mp3?dest-id=603849) ## [#211 How to Land Freelance Clients with Small Business Whisperer Luke Ciciliano (Developer Interview)](https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/211-how-to-land-freelance-clients-with-small-business-whisperer-luke-ciciliano-developer-interview) _2026-03-13 · The freeCodeCamp Podcast_ Today Quincy Larson interviews Luke Ciciliano. He's a front-end developer who runs Modern Website Design, a software consultancy that builds solutions for small to medium sized businesses. He taught himself programming in the 1980s and started landing clients in the 1990s. He's going to share tips for building your own software consultancy in your city and winning clients. We talk about: - How AI… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/freecodecamp/luke.mp3?dest-id=603849) ## [#210 There are 2 kinds of devs. One of them is screwed. Justin Searls interview](https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/210-there-are-2-kinds-of-devs-one-of-them-is-screwed-justin-searls-interview) _2026-03-06 · The freeCodeCamp Podcast_ Today Quincy Larson interviews Justin Searls. He's a software engineer who cofounded a software agency 15 years ago that's still going – even after he figured out how to make a lot of money quickly and retire at age 38 once he had enough savings. These days he's gone from solving problems for client to solving solving problems for himself by building open source software. Often using emerging… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/freecodecamp/justin.mp3?dest-id=603849) ## [#209 The ultimate dev skill is Integration Testing – Interview with Internet of Bugs](https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/209-the-ultimate-dev-skill-is-integration-testing-interview-with-internet-of-bugs) _2026-02-27 · The freeCodeCamp Podcast_ 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 hype versus the utility in LLMs and agent code generation tools - Why you might want to target developer jobs at smaller companies, and how these differ from "big tech" - How everyone will face agism… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/freecodecamp/carl.mp3?dest-id=603849) ## [A Friend Gave You $30 (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nbL1IJ7RLa2I) _2026-02-27 · **Sponsored**_ Sign up, deposit $5 within 30 days, and start investing with expert guidance. ## [#208 The three paths AI could take from here - Shawn Wang SWYX interview](https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/208-the-three-paths-ai-could-take-from-here-shawn-wang-swyx-interview) _2026-02-20 · The freeCodeCamp Podcast_ Today Quincy Larson interviews Shawn Wang. He's a software engineer, founder of the AI Engineer conference, and host of the Latent Space podcast focused on applying the latest models toward getting work done. We talk about: - How even if LLMs plateau, there will be still paths to better output through surrounding harness code - And three big areas researchers are exploring to further improve model… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/freecodecamp/swyx.mp3?dest-id=603849)