Grumpy Old Geeks Topics Programming work Topic Programming work 3 mentions in 1 episode The hosts discuss fragile code, team decisions, maintenance budgets, and reliance on outside software. Mentions 56: Some Things in this Podcast are True May 2, 2014 15:51 The actual real nuts and bolts reality of being a programmer. 18:21 We don’t know what half the code does. 19:19 We’re always so much relying on third-party APIs.