Julien Simon has spent years explaining cutting-edge tech to the world — first at AWS, then Hugging Face, and RCAI.

In this conversation, he shares how he moved from CTO roles into tech evangelism, what it was like pushing for honest benchmarking inside big tech, and why trust matters more than marketing.

We get into:

• The real role of a tech evangelist
• Why benchmarking caused internal friction
• The flood of AI-generated content and what it means for trust
• Whether software engineering as we know it is over
• How AI coding assistants are changing workflows
• Why young engineers may want to rethink their career paths

Julien also talks about his move into private equity and helping portfolio companies adopt AI at scale.

This one is candid, sharp, and forward-looking.