Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy engineering leadership matters more than ever | Manoj Mohan
Season 5 Episode 50
The common narrative suggests AI will make engineering leadership obsolete, but history - and the Industrial Revolution - suggests the opposite is tr…
5 months ago
The hidden costs of pre-computing data | Chalk's Elliot Marx
Season 5 Episode 49
Is your engineering team wasting budget and sacrificing latency by pre-computing data that most users never see? Chalk co-founder Elliot Marx joins A…
5 months, 1 week ago
Are developers happy yet? Unpacking the 2025 Developer Survey | Stack Overflow’s Erin Yepis
Season 5 Episode 48
After hitting a low point last year, developer job satisfaction is officially on the rise. Erin Yepis returns to the show to unpack the 2025 Stack Ov…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
From Kubernetes to AI maximalism | Stacklok's Craig McLuckie
Season 5 Episode 47
When you co-create Kubernetes, you earn the right to have strong opinions on the next platform shift. This week, Ben sits down with Craig McLuckie, C…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Speed is the moat | AMD’s Anush Elangovan
Season 5 Episode 46
In the race to define the future of AI, what's the one advantage that truly lasts? It's not proprietary tech, argues Anush Elangovan, VP of AI Softwa…
6 months ago
How spec-driven development is changing the rules | AWS’ Amit Patel
Season 5 Episode 45
What is "spec-driven development," and why is this structured approach the key to unlocking complex AI projects? We're joined by Amit Patel, Director…
6 months, 1 week ago
The CTO must now think like the CFO to survive | Sancus Ventures’ Lake Dai
Season 5 Episode 44
AI is forcing engineering leaders to become part-CFO, part-governance expert, and part-business strategist. Are you ready for the shift?
We're joined…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
How leaders win over their team’s biggest AI skeptics | Superhuman’s Loic Houssier
Season 5 Episode 43
Forget top-down mandates. How do you foster organic AI adoption on a skeptical, high-performing engineering team? Loic Houssier, Head of Engineering …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
AI isn't for cutting costs, it's for multiplying impact | Super.com's Matt Culver
Season 5 Episode 42
Is your company using AI to trim your budget, or to multiply your team's impact? We're joined by Matt Culver, a senior engineering leader at Super.co…
7 months ago
The timelessness of vector databases | Pinecone’s Ram Sriharsha
Season 5 Episode 41
With massive context windows and new agent frameworks, do vector databases still matter? Ram Sriharsha, CTO at Pinecone, joins the conversation to ma…
7 months, 1 week ago