ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

Hosted by Conor Hoekstra, Bryce Adelstein Lelbach & Ben Deane

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Oct 2026

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A programming podcast hosted by three software engineers (two at a time) that focuses on algorithms, data structures, programming languages, latest news in tech and more. The podcast was initially inspired by Magic Read Along.

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October 23, 202628 min

Episode 309: Default Construction & CppCon 2026 with Jason Turner

In this episode, Conor and Ben chat with Jason Turner about default construction in C++. Link to Episode 309 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Ben Deane: Twitter BlueSky About the Guest: Jason is host of the YouTube channel C++ Weekly , co-host of the podcast CppCast , author of C++ Best Practices , and author of the first casual puzzle books designed to teach C++ fundamentals while having fun! Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-10-07 Date Released: 2026-10-23 CppCast Podcast List of All Jason's Talks [resize_and_overwrite](https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/string/basic_string/resize_and_overwrite) The worst programming language of all time itCppCon20 - My Least Favorite Anti-Pattern (Conor Hoekstra) Specialized algorithms Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series: Howard Hinnant Refactoring Techniques and Strategies (a Tale in Three Acts) - Dave Steffen - CppCon 2026 Escaping 1996: Meta-Modern C++ Techniques for Embedded Systems Expression-based Programming for Better Code? - Jason Turner - NDC Toronto 2026 Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8

October 16, 202621 min

Episode 308: Rule of N with Jason Turner

In this episode, Conor and Ben chat with Jason Turner about his Rule of N talk. Link to Episode 308 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Ben Deane: Twitter BlueSky About the Guest: Jason is host of the YouTube channel C++ Weekly , co-host of the podcast CppCast , author of C++ Best Practices , and author of the first casual puzzle books designed to teach C++ fundamentals while having fun! Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-10-07 Date Released: 2026-10-16 CppCast Podcast List of All Jason's Talks Rules for Special Member Functions The rule of three/five/zero C++ std::ignore Spaceship operator warren recondite sesquipedalian Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8

October 9, 202625 min

Episode 307: C++ Conferences & Meetups with Jason Turner

In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about Jason Turner's about C++ conferences, meetups and more! Link to Episode 307 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Ben Deane: Twitter BlueSky About the Guest: Jason is host of the YouTube channel C++ Weekly , co-host of the podcast CppCast , author of C++ Best Practices , and author of the first casual puzzle books designed to teach C++ fundamentals while having fun! Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-10-07 Date Released: 2026-10-09 CppCast Podcast cpp.chat Podcast Denver C++ Meetup Stockholm C++ Meetup NDC Toronto Lambda World C++ Online NDC Copenhagen C++ On Sea C++ Now CppCon C++ Under the Sea List of All Jason's Talks Safety In Numbers Talk Rule of N Talk Keynote: I Fixed Move Semantics - Jason Turner @cppweekly Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8

October 2, 202631 min

Episode 306: Will Bryce Switch to Linux (Omarchy)?!

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about Omarchy, Linux vs Windows and more! Link to Episode 306 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter BlueSky Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-09-30 Date Released: 2026-10-02 Omarchy Enter the Matrix • Conor Hoekstra • YOW! 2025 Enter the Matrix Deck Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far The Ezra Klein Show DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux Lex Fridman Podcast Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote - DHH ADSP Episode 302: From PyTorch to GPU MODE with Mark Saroufim POD GOD AI-FI Book Rankings Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8

September 25, 202611 min

Episode 305: DHH, Hinton & Jensen

In this episode, Conor mentions of few podcasts that might be of interest while on paternity leave. Link to Episode 305 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-09-24 Date Released: 2026-09-25 ADSP Episode 302: From PyTorch to GPU MODE with Mark Saroufim ADSP Episode 271: Mastermind Algorithms POD GOD DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far | The Ezra Klein Show AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried Big Technology Podcast Hard Fork Podcast Machine Gods Podcast Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8

September 18, 202638 min

Episode 304: The Agentic Era & Books with Mark Saroufim

In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about autoresearch, productionizing AI-generated GPU kernels, GPU MODE, books, video games and more! Link to Episode 304 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky About the Guest: Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation , PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE . Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-20 Date Released: 2026-09-18 Core Automation GPU MODE PyTorch ADSP Episode 294: Histocache CUB Library QR GPU MODE Problem Modal GPU MODE Lecture 108: One Layer Deeper competition onelayerdeeper.ai The Peterman Pod Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On What Grew His Career And Building at Anthropic (Peterman Pod) Permutation City by Greg Egan A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Mark's Bookshelf Mark's Top 10 Books Journey to the Ants Visual Group Theory The Theory of Fun Working with Legacy Code The Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics Game Theoretic Foundations for Probability and Finance NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem laplace-torch Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8

September 11, 202634 min

Episode 303: Open Models, GPU Kernels & autoresearch with Mark Saroufim

In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about open vs closed models, numerical correctness, AI-generated GPU kernels, autoresearch and more! Link to Episode 303 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky About the Guest: Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation , PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE . Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-20 Date Released: 2026-09-11 Core Automation GPU MODE PyTorch QR GPU MODE Problem NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem laplace-torch Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8

September 4, 202625 min

Episode 302: From PyTorch to GPU MODE with Mark Saroufim

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Mark Saroufim about his path from AI theory and Microsoft to Graphcore and PyTorch, what he learned from open source, building the GPU MODE community, and his work automating AI systems research at Core Automation. Link to Episode 302 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky About the Guest: Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation , PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE . Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-20 Date Released: 2026-09-04 Core Automation GPU MODE Graphcore The Robot Overlord Manual Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation PyTorch Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8

August 28, 202644 min

Episode 301: My Existential Crisis, AI Fluency & the Death of Conferences?

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about the future of technical communities, AI fluency, Conor's existential crisis, Auto Research Academy and more! Link to Episode 301 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-08-12 Date Released: 2026-08-28 GOSIM Conferences Modal EURO PYTHON GPU MODE Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8

August 21, 20261 hr 34 min

Episode 300: Sean Parent "I'm not writing code anymore."

In this episode, Conor and Bryce celebrate the 300th episode fo ADSP by catching up with Sean Parent! Link to Episode 300 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky About the Guest: Sean Parent is a principal scientist and software architect for Adobe Photoshop. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he joined as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC. Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-08-19 Date Released: 2026-08-21 POD GOD CppCast cpp.chat Sean Parent - Papers and Presentations ADSP Episode 299: Do We Need Humans in the Loop? NVIDIA CCCL cel-rs Stepanov Papers Bob Tarjan Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm Soylent Green is people! Claude Code The Last Emperor - A Gentleman Jonathon Blow on the Quality of Software (Software is in Decline) Lean Programming Language Dafny Programming Language Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg autoresearch Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8