AI Leader Series
Real teams building AI-native engineering.
Case studies from the founders and engineering leaders putting AI to work in production. New episodes drop on Substack and YouTube.
Aug 28, 2026Live Webinar: Laying the Foundations of your Software Factory with Open-SourceRegister: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7498439740179005440?viewAsMember=trueAug 23, 2026Shift Left? But this time it's differentShift left never had a tooling problem. It had a unit-of-work problemAug 6, 2026From a Million Vulnerabilities to One: Fixing Security at the Point of GenerationListen now | Featuring Lee Thurlow, CISO at MultiverseJul 30, 2026Foundations First, Features Later: Where engineering leaders should place their AI betsListen now | Featuring Rob Meaney, VP of Engineering at PhorestJul 21, 2026#128AI at a $2B unicorn, software engineers job report and entering the token chasmJul 16, 2026Stop chasing models. Start building harnessesListen now | Featuring Denis Turkov, Founder ExecuroJun 30, 2026#127AI at a $2B unicorn, software engineers job report and entering the token chasmJun 25, 2026Lessons on Deploying AI at Scale Inside a $2B Fraud-Fighting UnicornListen now (53 mins) | Featuring Diogo Guerra, SVP of Engineering at FeedzaiJun 23, 2026#126VP of Engineering Report: State of Play | Integration Testing on JVM | Why code verification is slippingJun 16, 2026#125I know I can but should I? Conversation with VP of Engineering @ Astronomer | Fable vs a Junior Analyst and, the doubts that Goldman Sachs has on AIJun 11, 2026I know I can, but should I? Capability vs. Intent in the AI Gold RushListen now (50 mins) | Featuring Dave O'Connor, VP of Engineering at AstronomerJun 9, 2026#124A Case Study: Did AI speed us up - an honest take | How LLMs actually work | The real story with data centres --- and much more!Jun 9, 2026Did AI speed us up?A trend analysis of 2,410 completed tickets at Kerno spanning January 2025 to May 2026, with focus on pre and post AI tooling adoption, September 2025.Jun 2, 2026#123Why AI isn't winning in Hollywood, is AI more local than we think and some X token baiting.May 26, 2026#122Stop Selling AI Like It's a Layoff Machine, notification systems for MCP and a contrarian take to Google I/O.May 19, 2026#121Moving feedback to developer machines, how oil maths and storage is impacting AI and which F20 companies can sustain tokenmaxing?May 14, 2026Measuring What Actually Matters: AI Developer Velocity and Cost of Getting it WrongListen now (52 mins) | Featuring Max Kanat-Alexander, Executive Distinguished Engineer at Capital OneMay 12, 2026#120Your Chief of AI Staff, is AI worth it when you factor in software maintenance and why paid maintainers ship better code.May 5, 2026#119A rant, what Datadog universe of data is telling us about AI and how neuro-symbolic AI systems are cutting AI energy costs by 99%!Apr 29, 2026Europe + Silicon Valley: A Founder's journey of building and scaling a real AI companyListen now (48 mins) | Guest: Alberto, co-founder & CEO of Infovox, a document parsing and data extraction company (YC S22), based in San Francisco with an engineering team in Madrid.