Since 2020 I've hosted Coffee and Open Source, a podcast and live stream where I talk with folks from across the tech industry. That's more than 180 episodes so far, which is a lot of yapping.

Now I'm going back through the whole archive and treating it like data. I'm tagging every episode for the themes that come up, like how people got started in open source, how they found contributors, burnout and career changes. Then I'm counting, and looking at what changed between 2020 and now. How often did AI come up in 2020, compared to this year? I'll have the numbers.

I'm especially interested in the setbacks, and how people came back from them. You'll hear those from the guests themselves, in short clips and quotes used with their permission.

There's no code in this one, just what six years of developer stories add up to, in their own words and with real numbers behind it.