Mike Stonebraker created Postgres, won the Turing Award, and just tested text-to-SQL on real warehouses. The result: 10%, not the 80% benchmarks claim. New episode.
"Arrow has the intricacy of a fine Swiss watch." The co-creator of Apache Arrow on why AI agents cannot replicate decade-long infrastructure design.
"Pandas in 2011 was essentially book-driven development, quite literally." Wes wrote features because he needed them for the book chapter.
"If I had taken three years longer to do things the right way, it would have been too late." -- Wes McKinney on why pandas shipped imperfect and won.
"This is bad. Why haven't you fixed this yet? I would have already fixed this today with Claude code." -- Wes McKinney on radical accountability for software vendors.
"I would just wake up and write Python code." Wes McKinney on the founder hours that created pandas.
Wes McKinney built pandas in a mouse-infested NYC apartment on founder hours. Now he runs parallel Claude Code sessions and says AI is forcing "radical accountability" on every software vendor shipping mediocre products. Full conversation: https://youtu.be/Uso8-yaERkE
Recce - Trust, Verify, Ship