Thinkers. Builders. Rebels. Big ideas from the edge of tech and beyond.
Hosted by Dimitar Stanimiroff, Heresy started with a simple goal: learn from the sharpest minds in SaaS GTM. It’s grown into a show that follows curiosity across domains—tech, startups, investing, science, and philosophy.
Past guests include Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Aaron Ross (Predictable Revenue), Philip Su (ex-Meta, OpenAI) and execs from Uber, Box, Twilio, and Stack Overflow.
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The Moment AI Became Smarter Than The People Building It | Peter Nixey
Most developers saw AI as a tool. Peter Nixey saw it as a warning sign.Three years ago, Peter wrote a post predicting the death of Stack Overflow - before anyone was talking about it. He was right. But his more recent writing hit closer to home: the moment he realized he was no longer directing the AI, he was slowing it down.Peter is a senior developer and advisor who has spent years working at the intersection of startups and software. He helped launch Fyxer, one of the UK's fastest growing AI assistant companies, at a time when OpenAI didn't even have a public API. Today he is building some of the most advanced AI development pipelines in the industry — and quietly questioning where humans fit into all of it.In this conversation, we explore:
Why Peter predicted the death of Stack Overflow three years before the traffic data confirmed it
How AI moved from assistant to bottleneck — and why Peter realized he was the problem
The two factory system he built to remove himself from his own workflow
Why most developers are using AI completely wrong
The difference between building what you want and building what people need
Why the next bottleneck in software has nothing to do with code
How to manage your mind when the future is genuinely impossible to predict
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12 Feb 2026
The Rise and Fall of Stack Overflow — and What AI Changes Next | Jeff Szczepanski
Host interviews former Stack Overflow COO Jeff Szczepanski to explore the platform's rise, its enterprise pivot, the $1.8B acquisition, and the impact of AI on developer communities and careers.
20 Jan 2026
The Geopolitics of AI: China vs the U.S., Taiwan, Greenland & Global Power
Host [Host Name] interviews Hung Lee, creator of Recruiting Brainfood, exploring how AI reshapes global power dynamics, from Greenland's strategic importance to the U.S.-China rivalry over Taiwan.
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