Soft Skills Engineering
Hosted by Dave and Jamison · Jamison Dance and Dave Smith
4.9from 1,074 ratings
- 532
- Episodes
- 137
- Transcribed
- 1,074
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 25K
- YouTube views
About Soft Skills Engineering
It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers about the non-technical stuff that goes into being a great software developer.
- Publisher
- Jamison Dance and Dave Smith
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Mar 2016
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
137 of 532 episodes have a transcript.
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 531: Shallow feedback and my coworker is a huge sloperator
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 530: Product engineering and why does my team never challenge my ideas?
7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 529: Zoom calls on my open floor plan and laconic staff engineer
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Episode 531: Shallow feedback and my coworker is a huge sloperator
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's kind of a short story. Yeah. All right. Dave, do you want to read our next question? Let's do it. This comes from Tired of Load-Bearing Vocabulary. If any of you use AI regularly, you already know what this question is going to be about. All right. The question asker says, can I tell a coworker to stop using Claude? I work on a small team at a mid-sized company and a coworker keeps dropping overly verbose pull requests that are all full of AI jargon. These are increasingly hard to understand. And then when I ask for design intent clarification, I often get sent a long document that is even harder to understand. […]
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- YouTube views
- 24,768
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 292 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 782 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100
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- Quality
- 83
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Soft Skills Engineering?
Dave and Jamison host the show. Published by Jamison Dance and Dave Smith.
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