Software engineering at Google & CS education with Titus Winters

In this Pragmatic Engineer podcast episode, Titus Winters — lead author of Software Engineering at Google, former Google readability lead and Abseil builder, now a Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe — discusses how a small team refactored Google's roughly 250-million-line C++ codebase in 2010 using parsing, matching and code generation, and why Google made automated tests mandatory after Search's shipping cadence slipped to quarterly. He also argues the ACM/IEEE CS curriculum is badly out of date and should be largely rebuilt, and says AI has raised code output and outages while shipped features stay flat.