Polymathic

By Paul Welty

What happens to human judgment, craft, and meaning when artificial intelligence reshapes how work gets done? Polymathic explores the human side of technology — reflecting on the intersection of AI and... more

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The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.

Polymathic episodes:

February 27, 2026 When your work moves faster than your rules can keep up, governance quietly becomes theater
I want to talk about something that happened this week that looks like a technical problem but is actually a management problem. And I think it maps onto something most organizations are going to f...
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8min
February 26, 2026 Junior engineers didn't become profitable overnight. The work did.
We've been celebrating that AI made junior engineers profitable. That's not what happened. AI made it economically viable to give them access to work that actually builds judgment, work we always knew
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13min
February 26, 2026 Three projects, three opposite methods, all monster output days: what that taught me about when process helps and when it's just comfort
I've been running a portfolio of software projects using a mix of autonomous AI pipelines and human-led parallel agent sessions. Yesterday, three different projects had monster output days — and th...
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11min
February 25, 2026 What happens when the pipeline doesn't need you
So here's something I noticed today that I want to sit with. I run several projects that use autonomous pipelines — AI systems that pick up tasks, write code, open pull requests, ship changes. One ...
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9min
February 24, 2026 Dev reflection - February 24, 2026
I want to talk about what happens when the thing that runs the factory needs more maintenance than the factory itself.
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10min
February 24, 2026 The difference between persistence and stubbornness
I want to talk about persistence. Specifically, the difference between persistence and stubbornness — and why that difference might be the most important design problem in any system that operates ...
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10min
February 23, 2026 The rhythm your brain depended on
I want to talk about pacing. Not productivity, not velocity — pacing. Because I think we're about to discover that a lot of what we called 'workflow' was actually a rhythm our brains depended on, a...
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9min
February 22, 2026 When automation moves faster than you can decide
I want to talk about what happens when the thing you built to help you work starts working faster than you can think.
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10min
February 21, 2026 The problems you can't see until you look differently
I want to talk about invisible problems. Not the kind you ignore — the kind you literally cannot see until you change how you're looking.
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9min
February 20, 2026 The gap between execution and verification
I want to talk about the difference between execution and verification. Because something happened this week that made the distinction painfully clear, and I think it matters far beyond software.
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10min

FAQs about Polymathic:

How many episodes does Polymathic have?

The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.