Weekly Report 2026-38

14 Sept 2026 - 20 Sept 2026 (UTC)

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Ai

17 Sept 2026

Practical AI - How to get discovered in AI search

"Explores AI-driven search's impact on digital marketing, shifting from SEO to strategies like AEO and GEO, and challenges in adapting to AI's unique retrieval methods, brand visibility, and evolving content needs."

16 Sept 2026

The AI Native Dev - AWS's Marc Brooker: Specs, Not Code, Are the Hard Part

"Explores how AI and automation are transforming on-call engineering, with AWS's agentic AI tools handling routine tasks while human expertise remains vital for complex issues, emphasizing the need for mentorship and ethical AI development."

16 Sept 2026

The Reasoning Show - Building AI Agents That Support Enterprise Teams

"Explores AI agents in enterprises, their tools, applications, and challenges, emphasizing task-specific roles, security, and human-AI collaboration."

14 Sept 2026

How I AI - How Grok Bot designers use AI agents to build personal sites and product prototypes | John Bai & Peng Zheng

"AI boosts productivity by automating repetitive tasks, freeing professionals for creative and strategic work, while also aiding in design, 3D modeling, and dynamic personal projects, though challenges like security and integration persist."

Business

16 Sept 2026

My First Million - i got internet famous... if i started again from scratch, here's what I'd do this time

"Effective content creation prioritizes emotional engagement, quality over polish, consistency (like the 'Rule of 100'), niche specificity, and authenticity, with a focus on building a high-value audience and leveraging unique passions for long-term success."

16 Sept 2026

The EntreLeadership Podcast - What Really Killed Blockbuster (It Wasnt Streaming)

"Blockbuster's downfall resulted from customer frustration over late fees, ignoring Netflix's rise, resisting digital streaming, and leadership arrogance, underscoring the need for adaptability, innovation, and long-term strategy."

15 Sept 2026

Rogue Startups - RS367: How to Hire in the AI Era

"Explores AI's impact on teams, hiring strategies, lean structures, and balancing automation with human roles in software businesses."

15 Sept 2026

All Things Product - Delivery Isn't Free

"AI cuts software costs but demands skilled engineering for maintenance, security, and scaling, with rapid feature expansion risking spaghetti code and inefficiency - production-grade AI products require traditional best practices and significant refinement."

15 Sept 2026

The Entrepreneurs Studio - Why Story Works: The Science Behind Memorable Brands | Dr. J.J. Peterson

"Storytelling in business fosters trust and loyalty by making customers the heroes, emphasizing human-curated narratives over AI-generated content to stand out in a crowded market."

Business-ai

17 Sept 2026

Just Now Possible - Creating Aha! Builder: Concept to Code, No Engineers Required

"AHA, a bootstrapped remote company with $100M+ revenue, launched AHA Builder - an AI-powered app builder enabling product managers to create prototypes, validate concepts, and develop full-scale business applications without deep technical expertise, leveraging AI for faster prototyping, deterministic code for security, and enterprise scalability."

Development

17 Sept 2026

The Pragmatic Engineer - AI Skills with Matt Pocock

"Former voice coach turned developer shares insights on AI integration in software engineering, emphasizing fundamentals, adaptability, and structured workflows for productivity."

16 Sept 2026

The TWIML AI Podcast - From Voice Agents to AI Avatars with Alexander Smola

"Voice AI advances toward human-like avatars but faces challenges like latency, emotional authenticity, and hardware limitations, with future systems balancing speed, multimodal training, and ethical considerations."

16 Sept 2026

Software Engineering Radio - Milan Milanovic on the Laws of Software Engineering

"Explores key software engineering principles (like Conway's Law, Brooks' Law) and their impact on systems, teams, and decision-making, emphasizing context-dependent trade-offs, AI's role, and practical applications like measuring technical debt."

16 Sept 2026

Beyond Coding - How Top Engineers Still Get Hired When Most Get Ghosted

"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."

15 Sept 2026

Startups For the Rest of Us - Episode 850 | How Not to Screw Up When Hiring Your first Developer and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

"Key insights on hiring developers, managing startups, and navigating social anxiety as a founder, with focus on customer needs, AI risks, and long-term business success."

15 Sept 2026

Inspect and Adapt - #69 Intellectual Property

"Explores IP law's impact on software professionals, detailing patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, their evolution, enforcement challenges, and practical considerations like licensing and infringement risks."

15 Sept 2026

Refactoring Podcast - Making AI agents work in your team with Dennis Pilarinos

"AI adoption is surging but failing to boost productivity, with inefficiencies in workflows, code review bottlenecks, and fragmented data challenging effective integration, requiring context-powered solutions and better automation strategies."

15 Sept 2026

Dev Interrupted - Treat your data pipelines like code, because your agents already do | MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani

"Modern data infrastructure evolves with AI-driven automation, smaller efficient systems, and tools like MotherDuck, balancing innovation, cost, and human collaboration."

14 Sept 2026

MLOps.community - Why Cost Per Million Tokens Is A Useless KPI?

"AI's exponential growth in cloud services demands new FinOps strategies to manage unbounded costs, unpredictable usage, and real-time tracking, requiring adapted SRE/DevOps principles and use-case-specific financial modeling."

14 Sept 2026

ShopTalk - 732: Thomas Steiner on New Cross-Origin Storage APIs

"Examines web performance and security challenges, including cross-origin resource sharing, the shift from shared caching to isolation, and the Cross-Origin Storage API's role in balancing efficiency and security, while addressing browser fragmentation, privacy, AI integration, and web sustainability."

Marketing

17 Sept 2026

Think Media Podcast - 547: The Bible's Most Underrated Advice for Content Creators (Ecclesiastes)

"Seven underrated principles from Ecclesiastes guide content creators to act decisively, embrace generosity, avoid comparison, stay patient, and focus on skill, quality, and joy in the creative process for lasting success."

14 Sept 2026

The Startup Ideas Podcast - Building a Software Factory that actually works (Full Course)

"AI-powered software factories automate development like assembly lines, using model-agnostic, workflow-driven approaches to boost productivity, scalability, and code quality through structured processes and tools."

14 Sept 2026

Copywriters Podcast - The Persuasion Power of IMperfection

"Cultural and marketing shifts favor authenticity over perfection, with audiences embracing flawed, relatable portrayals and brands leveraging unscripted, transparent content to build trust and engagement."

Motivation

15 Sept 2026

The Knowledge Project - Tobi Lutke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work

"Explores pruning and rebuilding in personal and technological growth, AI's role in engineering and decision-making, the evolution of computing and interfaces, and the future of AI-human collaboration, intuition, and skill development."

15 Sept 2026

The Game with Alex Hormozi - The X Factor: Why Dolly Parton Was Impossible to Ignore | Ep 999

"Exceptionalism comes from blending rare, contradictory traits - like Dolly Parton's mix of humility and business savvy - that defy norms, captivate audiences, and make authenticity irresistibly compelling."

14 Sept 2026

Jocko Podcast - Jocko Underground: This is How to be a Dependable Warrior.

"Navy SEAL training demands extreme ownership, discipline, and embracing discomfort, with success depending on genuine motivation over preparation."