For software engineers ready to level up. Learn from CTOs, principal engineers, and tech leaders about the skills beyond coding: from technical mastery to product thinking and career growth. Created by Patrick Akil
Episodes
21 Oct 2026
"Explores IaC's evolution, automation benefits, and challenges, emphasizing API-first services, agent-driven workflows, and the balance between automation and human oversight for stability."
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30 Sept 2026
"Explores McDonald's World Menu Heist, AI's coding limitations (like poor long-term maintenance and refactoring), critiques unrealistic AI hype, and emphasizes engineering best practices, human oversight, and incremental productivity improvements."
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16 Sept 2026
"Tech layoffs surged in 2026, but AI-driven hiring shifts and competitive non-tech sectors like healthcare reshape the job market, demanding adaptability, networking, and soft skills for long-term success."
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19 Aug 2026
AI's evolution and challenges are explored through agentic systems like Amazon's Nova, model routing inefficiencies, simulated learning, enterprise tool integration, dynamic benchmarks, and the balance between specialized and generalized models.
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12 Aug 2026
"AI's impact on software engineering, design, and personalization - challenges, ethics, and future trends in automation, workflows, and human-AI collaboration."
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5 Aug 2026
"Focuses on problem-solving, career growth, adaptability, and proactive communication, emphasizing hands-on learning, personal branding, and strategic decision-making in tech."
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29 Jul 2026
Software engineering faces scaling challenges, AI integration, and cultural shifts, balancing productivity, verification, observability, and autonomy while measuring outcomes and adapting to AI's broader impact.
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22 Jul 2026
"Explores software engineering challenges like cost management, refactoring, and AWS expertise, emphasizing team collaboration, agile cultures, and AI-assisted workflows while advocating for balanced skills and human-driven problem-solving."
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15 Jul 2026
"Career growth, overcoming imposter syndrome, and adapting to AI-driven trends in software engineering are explored, emphasizing problem-solving, meritocracy, collaboration, and lifelong learning."
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9 Jul 2026
The text discusses shifting from informal coding to structured "vibe engineering" by combining AI agents with explicit rules and automation, addressing LLM limitations, cultural shifts toward adaptability, emerging tools like Fable, and challenges like cognitive overload and inequity in adopting evolving human-AI collaboration practices.
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