Exception Handlers

Alex and Bill interview Jennifer Wadella, Engineering Manager at Chromatic, about how AI broke the hiring process. From thousands of near-identical resumes to fake candidates showing up for interviews, they explore what hiring managers and job-seeking engineers have to do to get past the AI gatekeepers.

Alex and Bill interview Michael Coletta, CTO of Orbex Global Markets, about going all-in on AI in work and life - from a Claude Code morning briefing wired into every inbox and an agent that answers his messages, to a homegrown council of LLMs that red-team each other's output.

Alex and Bill deep dive on the nuts and bolts of software factories, from how they should be structured to why you should bother with them at all.

Alex and Bill talk with Jack Britton, CEO of Cyber Samaritans, about the practical mechanics of agentic AI software development — from control-plane setup and sub-team/mixture-of-agents workflows to running local models on hardware like the NVIDIA DGX Spark and Mac Studio.

Alex and Bill interview David Boskovic, CEO of Obvious AI, on what happens when an engineering team stops writing code and why the human's job becomes underwriting the work instead of doing it.

Alex and Bill interview Bhavini Soneji, CTO at SmithRx, on why AI's impact is inversely proportional to company size and what leaders can do about it through intentional investment in culture, communication, and organizational agility.

Alex and Bill sit down with LA CTO Forum founders Oded Noy and Tony Karrer to celebrate 25 years of bringing LA's top tech leaders together - from scrappy early meetups to navigating dot-com busts, AI booms, and everything in between.

Alex and Bill discuss how engineering practices of clean code, refactoring, and TDD are still relevant when AI is doing most of the coding

Alex and Bill chat with Josh Nisenson, Head of Engineering at Ribeye Media, on how AI is impacting engineering best practices - from automating all the things to rethinking traditional Agile ceremonies.

Alex and Bill chat with Dave Gullo, founder of ooda video, on leveraging AI to build, scale, and exit a company as a solopreneur.