SEEK Bytes

This special Season 3 finale of SEEK Bytes – a podcast for engineers by engineers – dives into one of the biggest AI engineering shifts of the moment: spec-driven development with GitHub Spec Kit. If you’ve been wondering how teams are using AI for more than just code completion, this episode unpacks a workflow designed to help engineers plan better, reduce drift and build higher-quality software faster.

From constitutions and user stories to self-healing analysis and the crossover with TDD, this is a fascinating look at how AI can turn messy feature work into a much more structured engineering process.

In this episode you’ll learn:
• What spec-driven development actually is – and how Spec Kit turns a feature idea into specs, plans, tasks and implementation steps instead of jumping straight into code.
• Why the “constitution” matters so much – how one shared set of project rules, dependencies and engineering standards can shape every AI-generated change that follows.
• Why this matters beyond engineering teams – how clearer upfront specs can reduce misunderstandings, cut rework and help product, design and engineering stay aligned before expensive mistakes get baked in.

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What happens when you give 100 high school students four days, real SEEK mentors and a crash course in how tech actually works? In this episode of SEEK Bytes – we're joined by special guests Asha Ioculari and Leon Belobrov and go behind the scenes of Camp SEEK, SEEK’s immersive program designed to open the doors of tech to girls and non-binary students and show them there’s far more to this industry than just writing code.
From design thinking and user research to pitching in front of 200+ people and senior SEEK leaders, this is a brilliant look at how SEEK is building confidence, broadening horizons and helping shape a more inclusive future for tech.

This episode's special guests: Asha Ioculari (SEEK Senior Product Manager) & Leon Belobrov (SEEK Principal Product Manager)

In this episode you’ll learn:
• What Camp SEEK actually is – a free, four-day immersive program where students experience the real world of tech through design sprints, hackathon-style teamwork and hands-on problem solving.
• Why it matters so much – how Camp SEEK is helping tackle underrepresentation in tech by building confidence early, widening access and showing students they absolutely belong in this space.
• How SEEK brings the experience to life – from the double diamond process and the “designer, developer, dreamer” model to daily retros, volunteer mentors and a final pitch that gives students a real taste of working in tech.

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Ever shipped a UI that “works” but still feels clunky, janky or confusing to users? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Elliott and Will chat with lead engineer Eddy Nguyen about Bleeds – a simple but powerful way to design every UI state your users actually experience, not just the happy path.

This episode's special guest: Eddy Nguyen (SEEK Lead Engineer)

Eddy breaks down how Bleeds (Blank, Loading, Error, Expected, Disabled, Static) went from a team guideline to a shared language across engineers, designers and product. They dig into skeletons, loading spinners, empty states, static rendering and optimistic updates, and show how a clear pattern for states can make your interfaces feel modern, forgiving and fast.

In this episode, we explore:
• What Bleeds is and how Blank, Loading, Error, Expected, Disabled and Static states map to real user journeys
• How a shared UI‑state language helps engineers, designers and product collaborate and keep experiences consistent across apps
• Practical tips for implementing Bleeds in React/GraphQL‑style front ends with skeletons, helpful errors, static rendering and fewer “mystery” states

If you’re a frontend or full‑stack engineer, designer or product person who wants your UI to feel polished in every state, this episode is for you.

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AI might look simple on the surface — just send a prompt, get a response — but behind the scenes, there’s a whole platform challenge to solve. In this episode of SEEK Bytes – we’re joined by Thet Ko, Senior Staff Engineer in SEEK’s AI Platform Services team, to unpack how SEEK is building an AI Gateway to centralise AI calls, improve governance and make it easier for teams to build with AI without reinventing the foundations every time.
From cost visibility and PII protection to guardrails, resilience and shared memory across agents, this episode lifts the lid on the platform work that makes enterprise AI actually usable at scale.

This episode's special guest: Thet Ko (Senior Staff Engineer)

In this episode you’ll learn:
• Why an AI Gateway matters – how centralising AI usage helps teams get better governance, clearer cost visibility and shared protection against risks like PII leakage and prompt injection.
• What platform teams need to solve for AI at scale – from giving agents the right tools and memory to helping teams focus on the use case while the platform handles the foundations.
• Why reliability and economics matter more than the hype – including model outages, fallback across regions, evaluation with golden datasets and LangFuse, and the reality that AI only scales if the value outweighs the cost.

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AI is moving fast — but are we building it responsibly? In this episode of SEEK Bytes – we sit down with Sreyna Rath, CEO and co-founder of jaimee.ai, who arrived in Australia as a refugee and is now running her own AI company with the aim to create something truly transformative for women. Elliott sits down with Reyna to unpack her journey and the real-world risks of AI bias, why safety can’t be bolted on at the end, and what developers can do to build tools that are fairer, safer and more human from day one.
From biased hiring systems to sexualised image outputs and AI companions designed for vulnerable users, this conversation is a powerful reminder that AI doesn’t just reflect technology — it reflects us.

This episode's special guest: Sreyna Rath (CEO and co-founder of Jamie.ai)

In this episode you’ll learn:
• Why responsible AI starts long before launch – and why fairness, safety and your most vulnerable users need to be considered right at the start, not patched in after the damage is done.
• How bias shows up in the real world – from hiring algorithms that penalised women to image tools that sexualised women, showing how bad data and blind spots can turn into harmful outcomes at scale.
• What everyday tech teams can do about it – including compassionate design, testing for bad outcomes, using AI to review AI, and treating AI as a sceptical collaborator instead of an unquestioned decision-maker.

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