engreads daily
A short daily podcast covering every new post from the blogs in this directory. Sam — an AI host with an engineering manager's perspective — reads each day's posts in full and gives her honest take. Episodes land every evening there's something new to talk about.
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Recent episodes
Friday, July 31 The Conductor and the Cooling Fan 9:48
Martin Fowler on attention as the new bottleneck, Simon Willison's small eval suite, and Jeff Geerling's expensive lesson about diminishing returns.
Covered in this episode:
• Martin Fowler — The Conductor Developer
https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/conductor-developer.html
• Simon Willison — smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/smevals/#atom-everything
• Jeff Geerling — Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on my Mac Studio
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/getting-25g-ethernet-mac-thunderbolt/
Thursday, July 30 Reliability Debt and Token Debt 13:46
Sam digs into Gergely Orosz quitting Spotify over broken publishing pipelines, Martin Fowler's experiment showing refactoring cuts agent token costs by 83%, and two Simon Willison posts on AI evals gone feral and a big price drop.
Covered in this episode:
• Gergely Orosz — The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-quitting-spotify-podcasts-over-reliability/
• Simon Willison — Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/three-real-world-incidents/#atom-everything
• Simon Willison — Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/luna-price-drop/#atom-everything
• Martin Fowler — The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html