Ryan chats with David Burns, Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, about the value of professional skepticism in an AI-driven world, applying test-driven development to agentic engineering, and why fixing flaky tests comes down to managing application state.

This week, we discuss why Sun really failed, the New Kingmakers becoming agents, and AI doom brackets. Plus, the NC State fumble and tech's biggest own goals.

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Runner-up Titles

• I’m trying to take a break from AI
• I knew it was some numbers
• Hey man, the business is over
• No budget meetings that day
• Developers don’t always win
• It’s probably fine and now Vercel has a new customer
• There’s no concept of “why RAM?”
• How do we feel about Wall-E?
• Fall Down With the Ball
• Sun Had Become Bored with the Mechanics of Running a Business
• Yahoo Buying Google
• I Haven't Seen This Bag Done
• It's Just Like a Tornado Hitting Your House
• Sun Sunday
• The New Kingmakers Are Agents
• Developers Have Lost a Lot of Power
• Give Me Five Architectures
• The AI Industry Likes Talking About This Too Much for It to Be Real
• It's Incredibly Hard to Exterminate All of Humanity
• Systemic Takeover, But We're All Happy
• Superloop, Who Dis?

Rundown

• What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck
• Agents: The new, New Kingmakers
• The AI Apocalypse Bracket: Just How Doomed Are We, Really?

Relevant to your Interests

• The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
• Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
• Zuckerberg distances Meta from calls for a coordinated approach on an AI slowdown
• The Enshittification Resistant Software Project
• Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?
• Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport — Better Offline
• Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
• “Everyone's in a race to replace GitHub": Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete
• AWS reimagines the getting started experience

Nonsense

• Rising beef costs push a Top 50 Texas BBQ spot to pull brisket from its everyday menu

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• VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
• VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking.
• Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: CSVFTW ****
• Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.
• cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium February 1-3, 2027
• SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027

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• Brandon: YouTube TV new Multiview and Sports Plan
• Matt: SuperLoop

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We sit down with Trish Barber, three-time tech-media entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of 3WaysDigital, author of Why Women Pivot, and incoming President of Women in Technology (WIT).
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Show Notes

Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem.

Today's episode was recorded shortly before the annual mid-year hiatus, and was recorded live at Codegarden. Codegarden is Umbraco's main conference, and I was invited by the folks over at Candid Contributions to record a collaboration episode on one of the stages. We sat down to discuss the topic of AI-based contributions to open source, the opinions of everyone present, what the Umbraco leadership team (which Emma is a part of) throught of them, and the (then) recent news that rsync's developer had come under fire for using AI. Along the way, we took questions from the audience and the recording ends with a rather spicy opinion from me; so keep an ear open for that.

I'm very grateful to Emma, Lotte, Carole, and Laura for asking me to collaborte with them on this episode. I'd also like to thank everyone on the Umbraco team for organising everything and allowing me to be part of Codegarden.

One thing to note is that Carole's mic wasn't working in the openning minutes. Podcast editor superstar Matt has done what he can to clean the audio up, and Carole's mic got replaced at the three minute mark, but it's worth knowing that going in.

Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET.

Full Show Notes

The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-9/its-still-your-code-ai-contributions-to-open-source-live-at-codegarden/

Useful Links:

• Codegarden and Candid Contributions
  • Codegarden programme
  • Candid Contributions
• Umbraco
  • Umbraco homepage
  • Umbraco Community
  • Getting involved with the Umbraco community
  • Umbraco on LinkedIn
  • Emma on LinkedIn
• Companion episode
  • S08E01 - Umbraco Unplugged: Emma Burstow & Mats Persson on Umbraco Being The Friendly, Truly Open-Source, CMS
• Open source projects discussed
  • curl
  • The Ladybird browser project
  • rsync on GitHub
  • Hacktoberfest
• Tools mentioned
  • Claude Code
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Cursor
  • JetBrains ReSharper
  • Playwright
  • GitHub CLI
• Also mentioned
  • Microsoft MVP Program
  • Stack Overflow
  • Explain Like I'm Five on Reddit
  • Hacker News
  • Bluesky

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