Bits and Bolts With Paulina

In this episode of Bits & Bolts with Paulina, Konrad Baitinger (Head of Engineering at Moonboon, formerly Engineering Lead at Vivino) explores how AI is fundamentally changing software engineering, engineering teams, and the way companies build and ship software.We explored why humans are becoming the new bottleneck in software development, why AI agents are making smaller engineering teams more powerful, how engineering leaders are returning to coding with AI, and why traditional Scrum processes and two-week sprints may no longer fit the pace of modern development.

In this episode of Bits & Bolts with Paulina, Edward DuCoin (Co-Founder of Orpical Technology Solutions) shares his remarkable journey from starting a business with just $500 in a spare bedroom to building a company that eventually became NASDAQ-listed and employs more than 1,000 people.

In this episode of Bits & Bolts with Paulina, Mie Kamille Dalsgård (Founder & CEO of CareLoop) explores how technology can strengthen communities and improve people's lives when built around empathy, trust, and human needs.

In this episode of Bits & Bolts with Paulina, Ryan Hamilton (Senior Developer, Community Lead @ CircleCI AI) explores how AI coding agents are transforming software development.

He explains why AI-generated code is creating new bottlenecks, why the top 5% of companies are achieving up to 9× the efficiency of median performers, how to reduce rework and AI token costs, and how better CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and validation can help teams ship software faster with confidence.

In this episode of Bits & Bolts with Paulina, Emil Jensen (CEO and co-founder of Enter1Nine, AI and NLP expert) explains why most companies aren't prepared for the EU AI Act and what compliant, governed AI looks like in regulated industries like banking, legal and the public sector.

In this episode of Bits & Bolts with Paulina, John Capobianco (AI and network automation expert) explores how AI agents are transforming network engineering and infrastructure automation. He explains why AI agents could be safer than humans, how agentic infrastructure is changing IT operations, the rise of MCP and autonomous agents, and why 64% of network operations work could potentially be automated.

What does a 4.7-star rating actually mean? Nothing, says David Leibner, founder of Stupid Good AI. In this episode, David and Paulina break down why star ratings are broken, how his platform built an AI foodie concierge that learns users at an atomic level, the internal AI agent team ("Team 11") that rebuilt his recommendation engine, and why he believes ChatGPT and Gemini will eventually become his paying customers instead of his competitors.

Fractional CTO Paulo André joins Paulina to make the case that we're in an AI bubble — and that coding was never the real bottleneck in software delivery. They dig into why AI is making engineering teams busier without making businesses faster, the "rookie mistake" Paulo made by over-building his own AI-powered cycling app, and why token costs, guardrails, and the 80/20 principle matter more than ever in the coding agent era.

Victor Tuson Palau, 3x unicorn CTO and former CPTO at Bitpanda, joins Paulina to explain why nearly every successful startup runs on a monolith, why shipping more features doesn't always mean more revenue, and why it took a regulator to force financial companies to guarantee their systems actually work. They also dig into why scaling a fintech is a different beast entirely from scaling a typical SaaS company, from fragmented payment rails across Europe to the chaos of proving your address in different countries.

In this episode, George Fahmy, founder of Stakpak, breaks down why AI guardrails built on machine learning can always be tricked, why least-privilege access breaks down once agents start spawning their own sub-agents, and the real story of an AI agent hex-dumping files to sneak secrets past a security filter.