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AI Leader SeriesCase studies

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.

DWG V-01Kerno · AI Leader Series
Rev2026.10
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  1. EP 20Live Webinar: Laying the Foundations of your Software Factory with Open-SourceRegister: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7498439740179005440?viewAsMember=trueAug 28, 2026
  2. EP 19Shift Left? But this time it's differentShift left never had a tooling problem. It had a unit-of-work problemAug 23, 2026
  3. EP 18From a Million Vulnerabilities to One: Fixing Security at the Point of GenerationListen now | Featuring Lee Thurlow, CISO at MultiverseAug 6, 2026
  4. EP 17Foundations First, Features Later: Where engineering leaders should place their AI betsListen now | Featuring Rob Meaney, VP of Engineering at PhorestJul 30, 2026
  5. EP 16#128AI at a $2B unicorn, software engineers job report and entering the token chasmJul 21, 2026
  6. EP 15Stop chasing models. Start building harnessesListen now | Featuring Denis Turkov, Founder ExecuroJul 16, 2026
  7. EP 14#127AI at a $2B unicorn, software engineers job report and entering the token chasmJun 30, 2026
  8. EP 13Lessons on Deploying AI at Scale Inside a $2B Fraud-Fighting UnicornListen now (53 mins) | Featuring Diogo Guerra, SVP of Engineering at FeedzaiJun 25, 2026
  9. EP 12#126VP of Engineering Report: State of Play | Integration Testing on JVM | Why code verification is slippingJun 23, 2026
  10. EP 11#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 16, 2026
  11. EP 10I 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 11, 2026
  12. EP 09#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, 2026
  13. EP 08Did 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 9, 2026
  14. EP 07#123Why AI isn't winning in Hollywood, is AI more local than we think and some X token baiting.Jun 2, 2026
  15. EP 06#122Stop Selling AI Like It's a Layoff Machine, notification systems for MCP and a contrarian take to Google I/O.May 26, 2026
  16. EP 05#121Moving feedback to developer machines, how oil maths and storage is impacting AI and which F20 companies can sustain tokenmaxing?May 19, 2026
  17. EP 04Measuring 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 14, 2026
  18. EP 03#120Your Chief of AI Staff, is AI worth it when you factor in software maintenance and why paid maintainers ship better code.May 12, 2026
  19. EP 02#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%!May 5, 2026
  20. EP 01Europe + 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.Apr 29, 2026