That podcast was really frustrating, as a software engineer. They conflated runtime bugs with compile time bugs, generally misunderstood how text parsing and argument substitution works in programming languages, failed to grok the differences between compiling and interpreting code, and on and on.
At the end of the day, they didn’t figure out anything besides, “maybe percent signs do something weird to the software”. Well, yah. That was clear as soon as the problem was stated. The rest was witty banter from dudes in over their heads and acting like they weren’t. 
