About this episode

In this episode, Gergely Orosz interviews Addy Osmani about his journey in tech, his work at Google, and the intersection of AI and web development.

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • Google Cloud Run – run your code and host LLMs directly on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure, without having to worry about managing infra. • Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers — Addy Osmani spent more than 14 years at Google, working on Chrome, DevTools, Core Web Vitals, and most recently, AI developer experience. If you've ever opened Chrome DevTools, or optimized a page for Core Web Vitals, you’ve used software built by Addy Osmani. In this episode, I sit down with Addy and we talk about his path from building a web browser aged just 16 to becoming a director at Google. We discuss what he learned from building tools for millions of developers, Google’s engineering culture, and why he continued doing hands-on coding work as a manager. We also get into how he works with AI agents today, the risks of ‘cognitive surrender,’ his approach to ‘loop engineering,’ and why it’s good to develop skills in product management, go-to-market, and other areas. — Timestamps 00:00 Intro…

People in this episode

Host: Gergely Orosz

Guest: Addy Osmani

Topics covered

• AI Engineering
• Web Development
• Google Culture
• Dev Tools
• Career Path
• Product Management

Keywords

• Chrome DevTools
• AI developer experience
• engineering culture
• cognitive surrender
• loop engineering
• product management
• Google

Sponsors

Antithesis, Google Cloud Run, Sentry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, jQuery, Chrome, Core Web Vitals

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