For decades, building software meant doing eighty percent of the hard work before you had anything to show for it. AI just flipped that equation. And it's creating a risk nobody planned for.

In this episode of The Catalyst, host Katey Teekasingh explores vibe coding — the technology that lets anyone build software by describing what they want in plain language. It was named Collins Dictionary's 2025 Word of the Year. It's already inside your organization. And in late 2025, it might have taken down Amazon's own cloud for thirteen hours.

Three experts break down where vibe coding genuinely helps, where it's dangerous, and what to put in place before it touches anything that matters.

In This Episode

• Why “the pilot is dead, long live the pilot” — and what that means for how mid-market IT teams test new ideas
• The 80/20 flip that makes AI-generated code fundamentally different from everything before it
• What happened at Amazon when an AI coding tool deleted a live production environment
• The five questions every IT leader should answer before a single line of AI code gets generated

Guests

• Greg Whalen, CTO, Prove AI
• Ron Espinosa, Director, Google Category, Softchoice
• Sean Larkin, AI Principal Architect, Softchoice

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