Podcast Overview
<p>Beyond Vibe Coding is a weekly podcast for senior engineering leaders navigating the impact of AI on how software gets built.<br /><br />Hosted by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer in partnership with Impala Search, each episode brings together the leaders shaping the next era of engineering - from how teams are adopting AI, to what changes for product and architecture, to what stays unchanged when the tools shift underneath us.<br /><br />New episodes weekly.</p>
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July 23, 2026
#S2.07 Agentic Engineering Is Bringing XP Back - Ben Hoskins (NewStore)
<p>Benjamin Hoskins joins Beyond Vibe Coding to discuss what agentic engineering looks like when it is grounded in serious engineering practice rather than prompt-driven improvisation. His personal workflow combines a custom Card Planner, MCP, Allium, big batches of red unit and end-to-end tests, boundary value analysis, hexagonal architecture, IntelliJ-based refactoring, and regular architectural review. The interesting point is not the tool list. It is the comprehensive use of the feedback loop: give agents a precise behavioral specification, make tests fail first, and then let the system implement against constraints.</p><p></p><p>The organizational story is equally concrete. At NewStore, Hoskins pushed AI adoption after building a point-of-sale system in four days and using it as a demonstration of what competitors could soon do. Since then, teams have started sharing prompts and skills, role descriptions have changed, and smaller temporary squads are becoming more viable. But the conversation resists the simplistic "engineering gets faster, everything is solved" story. In SaaS, the bottleneck often moves to product because customer adoption, commercial due diligence, integration cost, product taste, and learning loops determine whether faster delivery creates value or just more average features.</p><p></p><p>An interesting idea Ben explains is the canonical product model. Hoskins describes NewStore's attempt to pull product definition together across sales, marketing, customer success, support, product, engineering, design, documentation and APIs so that product ideas can be tested against a shared model, potentially with synthetic personas and automated exploratory testing. That makes AI less a coding assistant and more a way for the organization to reason about its own product.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p></p><p>Links and References</p><p></p><ul><li>Beyond Vibe Coding: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.bvc.fm/" target="_blank">https://www.bvc.fm/</a></li><li>Allium by JUXT: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://juxt.github.io/allium/" target="_blank">https://juxt.github.io/allium/</a></li><li>DORA metrics: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://dora.dev/guides/dora-metrics/" target="_blank">https://dora.dev/guides/dora-metrics/</a></li><li>Theory of Constraints Institute: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.tocinstitute.org/theory-of-constraints.html" target="_blank">https://www.tocinstitute.org/theory-of-constraints.html</a></li><li>Extreme Programming: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/xp/" target="_blank">https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/xp/</a></li><li>Behavior-Driven Development: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cucumber.io/docs/bdd/" target="_blank">https://cucumber.io/docs/bdd/</a></li><li>Hexagonal architecture overview by Alistair Cockburn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://alistair.cockburn.us/hexagonal-architecture/" target="_blank">https://alistair.cockburn.us/hexagonal-architecture/</a></li></ul><p></p><p>Beyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.bvc.fm" target="_blank">www.bvc.fm</a>, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.</p>
July 16, 2026
#S2.06 Your AI Transition Does Not Stop with Adopting the Technology - Stefan Schubert-Peters
<p>Stefan Schubert-Peters returns to Beyond Vibe Coding to discuss a topic many engineering organizations are only beginning to name: AI adoption and AI identity change are not the same thing. At felmo, a difficult retro around AI, job security and career anxiety made him realize that even experienced engineers who already use AI can still be entering a deeper change curve around what the technology means for their role and future.<br /></p><p>The conversation distinguishes two clocks inside the AI transition. The visible clock is adoption: tools, workflows, Codex, Claude, hooks, skills and agentic code. The slower clock is identity: what happens when software engineers, managers, product people, QA and designers have to rethink the craft and boundaries they built their professional identity around. André warns that companies can easily misread adoption dashboards and declare victory while the organization is still in the middle of the real change.<br /></p><p>The leadership message is pragmatic: managers need to create safety without pretending the change is optional, show uncertainty without losing direction, and make role evolution explicit instead of leaving people in limbo. The episode points toward a future where engineering roles compact, designers may push PRs, QA changes shape, and product clarity becomes even more important because faster engineering can amplify confusion as easily as output.<br /><br />--</p><p></p><h2>Links and References</h2><ul><li>felmo: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://felmo.de/" target="_blank">https://felmo.de/</a></li><li>Stefan Schubert-Peters on LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-schubert-peters/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-schubert-peters/</a></li><li>Previous Beyond Vibe Coding episode with Stefan: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/live/Dle0yrRF9WA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/live/Dle0yrRF9WA</a></li><li>Lenny's Newsletter - How tech workers are feeling in 2026: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-workers-are-feeling-in-2026" target="_blank">https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-workers-are-feeling-in-2026</a></li><li>Lenny's Podcast - How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5dDyuNfZYNjVBZ0rl0OAFW" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/episode/5dDyuNfZYNjVBZ0rl0OAFW</a></li></ul><p></p><p>Beyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.bvc.fm" target="_blank">www.bvc.fm</a>, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.<br /></p><p></p>
July 9, 2026
#S2.05 Inside Parloa's AI Kitchen: How the Company Building Agents Builds with Agents - Italo Vietro
<p>Italo Vietro joins Beyond Vibe Coding to describe how Parloa, a company building AI agents for enterprise customer experience, uses AI internally to change the way engineering works. The episode centers on Parloa's internal "kitchen": a shared harness of skills, agents and workflows that helps engineers with implementation, SRE, security, threat modeling, review and management work.</p><p></p><p>Also Italo makes the point, that code generation was never the slowest part of software delivery. Parloa saw a high share of code produced through agentic workflows, but that did not automatically improve cycle time. He describes how Parloa methodically automates the full lifecycle: specification, validation, review automation, deployment safety via a comprehensive set of deterministic validations and operational best practices like low-blast-radius rollout, relentless focus on change failure rate and a QRS program.</p><p></p><p>Italo also gives a useful leadership reality check. Parloa does not force one coding LLM and does not treat AI-native as a permanent differentiator. Tools will standardize and change. The durable advantage is building a strong engineering system, hiring product-minded architects, and keeping the expertise in the organization to understand what AI produces when something breaks when the dark factory becomes a reality.</p><p></p><p>--</p><h2>Links and References</h2><ul><li>Italo Vietro: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://italovietro.com/" target="_blank">https://italovietro.com/</a></li><li>OpenSpec: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.com/Fission-AI/openspec" target="_blank">https://github.com/Fission-AI/openspec</a></li></ul><p></p><p>Beyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.bvc.fm" target="_blank">www.bvc.fm</a>, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.</p>
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