CoRecursive: Coding Stories is hosted by Adam Gordon Bell and tells the stories and people behind software development. It publishes rarely: the feed shows one episode in the last 90 days as of October 2026, and the most recent episode is from August 4, 2026. When it does publish, episodes usually run about 45 minutes.
The show's description is short: the stories and people behind the code, with stories of software development from interesting people. Many episodes are labeled "Story" and follow one developer's experience, such as a decades-long C++ career, early days at Google or a bug that cost people their livelihoods.
The latest titles also show a run of episodes on how machine learning works, including the Hutter Prize on compression, the bitter lesson in reinforcement learning and the pre-training wall. A September 2025 episode called Quick Update describes the podcast's current state and consistency challenges, which fits the sparse schedule.
Our take: it suits developers who like narrative storytelling more than news or tutorials, and who are happy to wait for a new episode. It is worth subscribing and sampling the archive rather than expecting a weekly show.
We found no YouTube view data for this show, so these starting points come from the feed, picked by topic:
Chosen from the latest 12 feed episodes by topic; we did not rank them by popularity. Descriptions are based on the episode titles.
CoRecursive is the narrative, story-first show in this group. Built This Week is our show, with Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler: the hosts build something with AI every week, test new AI tools, interview a founder or operator and cover AI news. Browse the Built This Week episodes, or see best coding podcasts and our podcast guides.
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Adam Gordon Bell hosts CoRecursive: Coding Stories.
Rarely. The median gap between episodes is about a month, and the feed shows only one episode in the last 90 days, as of October 2026; the latest is from August 4, 2026.
Episodes usually run about 45 minutes, though the occasional update or notes episode is much shorter.
We have no YouTube view data for this show, so we suggest recent stories such as The Aging Programmer, Inside Early Google and Risk Rolls Downhill, about a software bug that sent people to prison.
Similar shows include The Changelog, The Stack Overflow Podcast, Developer Tea, Syntax.
