Show notes
Charlie Marsh is the founder of Astral, the Python devtool startup that was acquired by OpenAI. I inteviewed him about how software engineering is changing and learnings from starting his own company as an engineer.• My ergonomic keyboard project I mentioned, you can follow along here: https://read.compose.llc/• The Kickstarter page for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-simple-ergonomics-beautifully-donePodcast links:• YouTube: https://youtu.be/Iw65FD4MGgs• Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835• Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/openai-eng-and-dev-tools-founderThank you to this episode's sponsor for supporting my work:• WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at https://workos.com/Timestamps:(00:00) Intro(00:40) Origin story(06:04) The front page of Hacker News(14:35) Why he chose Rust(20:10) Full codebase migration from Zig to Rust(28:40) LLM generated code and open source(35:34) Performance optimizations(44:54) Optimization with AI and combating slop(01:02:08) Learnings as an eng starting a company(01:17:55) Top technical talk recommendation(01:18:56) Advice for his younger self(01:22:00) OutroWhere to find Charlie:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marshcharles/• GitHub: https://github.com/charliermarsh• X/Twitter: https://x.com/charliermarshWhere to find Ryan:• Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/• X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/• Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpeterman• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanlpetermanReferenced in this episode:• Python tooling could be much, much faster: https://notes.crmarsh.com/python-tooling-could-be-much-much-faster• The coolest PR he's ever seen: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/789• Andrew Kelley’s data-oriented design talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IroPQ150F6c• Ruff: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff• uv: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv• ty: https://github.com/astral-sh/ty• Salsa: https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
