Episode #21
Software Factories
Sep 28, 2026—S1
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.
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Episode #21
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.
Episode #20
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.
Episode #19
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.
Episode #17
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.
Episode #16
Alex and Bill discuss how engineering practices of clean code, refactoring, and TDD are still relevant when AI is doing most of the coding
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