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!

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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
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