This week on Software Sundays, KD breaks down how a simple email compromise in a New Jersey school district led to millions in stolen taxpayer funds, a budget crisis, and new debt obligations for the community.

We also get into Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, what it reveals about the fight for control of AI, and why developers need to understand who owns the models they depend on.

Then KD covers GitHub’s recent availability issues, including pull request and search problems, and what they teach us about third-party dependencies, platform risk, and engineering accountability.

In this episode’s Q&A, we cover how software engineers can market their services, how regression testing works, what to watch during organizational change, the difference between syntax and runtime errors, and why reading technical books can accelerate your growth.

We close with a mindset reminder: stop overthinking, start trying, and build a bias toward action.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Welcome and disclaimer

02:12 - New Jersey school district cyber attack

13:45 - OpenAI, Elon Musk, and AI governance

25:30 - GitHub outages and platform reliability

39:10 - Why developers need to understand real-world systems

43:02 - How to market your services as a software engineer

52:20 - How regression testing is performed

1:01:45 - What to watch during organizational change

1:12:30 - Runtime errors vs syntax errors

1:21:30 - Three benefits of reading technical books

1:37:40 - Build a bias toward action

1:47:10 - Birthday shoutouts and outro

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