# Joel Spolsky describes his sabbatical and companies including Glitch and HASH

DevFeed: [Joel Spolsky describes his sabbatical and companies including Glitch and HASH](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/so-how-s-that-retirement-thing-going-anyway-37530.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2019/12/05/so-hows-that-retirement-thing-going-anyway/>)

Author: Joel Spolsky

Published: 2019-12-05T22:51:39Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Joel Spolsky](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/joel-spolsky.md>)

Topics: [Simulation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/simulation.md>), [Stack Overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stackoverflow.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [ceo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ceo.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [retirement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retirement.md>), [stack-overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stack-overflow.md>)

## AI overview

Joel Spolsky describes his sabbatical after Stack Overflow appointed Prashanth Chandrasekar as CEO. He discusses Glitch's simplified programming environment and HASH's open source platform for simulating agent behavior.

## Source excerpt

For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I'm still going on some customer calls... Read more "So, how's that retirement thing going, anyway?"