Software Engineering with AI
AI-assisted engineering, code generation, system design, and the evolving engineer role.
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Ep 87 - The AI Native Organization
Software is slipping from “hard to produce” to “easy to generate,” and that single change forces a rethink of how we build companies, teams, and careers. When AI compresses planning, implementation, and iteration, the bottleneck moves away from writing code and t
Ep 80 - The Competitive Reset: AI Creates New Winners By Moving Value
AI is everywhere right now: copilots, automated workflows, faster analytics, better dashboards. And yet a lot of leaders still feel the same uneasy question underneath the hype: if AI is so powerful, why aren’t we seeing truly transformational business outcomes e
Ep 85 - Leverage Outruns Wisdom: Systems Leadership In The AI Era
AI is quietly rewriting the org chart, and it’s not because everyone suddenly works faster. The real shift is structural: teams are becoming blended systems of humans, AI agents, orchestration layers, evaluation pipelines, and continuous automation workflows. Tha
Ep 83 - Up the Stack: The Five Layers Of The Future Software Engineer
AI can write code faster than any team on earth, so why does it still feel like shipping software is hard? The uncomfortable answer is that speed is not the same as progress, and generation is not the same as judgment. We challenge the tired question “Will AI rep
Ep 82 - A Devs Transformation: New Values Emerge As Code Becomes Cheap
The scariest part of AI in software is not that it writes code. It is that it changes what “being an engineer” even means. When generative AI can scaffold applications, spin up infrastructure configs, draft tests, refactor modules, and debug common failures in mi
Ep 78 - Learn By Building: From Strategy Decks To Working Agents w/ Matt Bartles
“We’ll learn AI once we understand it” sounds responsible, but it’s one of the fastest ways to fall behind. We sit down with Matt to argue for a different approach: learn AI by building with it, in small scopes, with real users, and with the humility to let the w
Ep 69 - Future of Work: When Intelligence Lives In Your Tools
What if the real shift in the future of work isn’t learning to code, but learning to supervise? We dig into a new operating model where product and engineering leaders step into the execution loop by directing AI coding agents that read repos, edit files, run tes
Ep 67 - RAG Done Right: Measure The Evidence Or Drift Into Error
What happens when a brilliant-sounding AI gives the wrong answer with total confidence? We dig into the quiet culprit behind so many “LLM failures”: retrieval. Rather than judging how smart a model sounds, we walk through how to judge whether it looked at the rig
Ep 60 - Reinforcement Learning: Reward The Process And The Future Changes
New year energy is loud; smarter growth is quiet. We’re kicking off 2026 by trading fragile resolutions for a durable learning loop inspired by reinforcement learning. Instead of chasing perfect plans, we break down how real change happens: practice that compound
Ep 3 - AI Strategies for Optimizing Business Operations w/ Matt Bartles
Ever wondered how AI can transform your business operations or how industry experts navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape? Join us for an enlightening conversation with Matt Bartels, an esteemed AI and automation consultant. Matt shares his remarkable journe