Come learn about AI from the lived experiences and expertise of others. Each episode is an interview with someone who is using AI or has expertise in a specific industry.
Hosted by Molly Berg, an AI Strategist with a background in software engineering and learning & development. Learn more at mollyberg.co.
Leading an AI-Native Engineering Team w/ Kelsey Duncan
When every engineer can own a feature end to end with AI, who do they collaborate with? Kelsey Duncan, Senior Engineering Manager at FreeWill, shares what’s changed for her team: fewer blockers, more isolation, and open questions about what career growth looks like. We also cover moving from Cursor toward Claude Code, onboarding engineers onto AI-built repos, and why her team’s skills are named Bake and Sift.
22 Oct 2026
Co-working With AI w/ Mike Nakhimovich
Mike Nakhimovich led Airbnb’s Dev AI team through a no-mandate rollout that took agentic coding from 5% to 98% adoption. Now he’s building Hive, a place to co-work with your agents that feels more like a farm than a factory. We talk about where to keep humans in the loop, why async beats synchronous, and why 50–80% faster “in a happy way” beats 4X.
Hive is in closed beta as of the release of this podcast. You can join the waitlist at friendlyai.dev (http://friendlyai.dev/)
Reach Mike at mike@friendlyai.dev (mailto:mike@friendlyai.dev)
15 Oct 2026
Directing AI, Not Prompting It w/ Josh Penzell
Discussion with Josh Penzell, founder of Imagination Applied, about directing AI instead of prompting it: from his work on Special Olympics’ multilingual Unified Champion Schools Inclusion Academy to why organizations should reward experimentation over time savings.
Josh's LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-penzell)
Josh's Website (https://www.joshpenzell.com/)
Special Olympics’ multilingual Unified Champion Schools Inclusion Academy (https://www.specialolympics.org/what-we-do/youth-and-schools/global-center-for-inclusion-in-education/unified-champion-schools-inclusion-academy)
8 Oct 2026
AI ROI for You and Your Business w/ Cora Anthony
Discussion with Cora Anthony, an AI enablement and L&D leader, about getting real ROI from AI: for organizations, by starting with discovery and measuring time saved, and for individuals, by building skills that go with you wherever you work.
1 Oct 2026
Leading Engineers Through AI w/ Joseph Cutrono
AI makes great engineers better, good engineers great, and bad engineers worse. Joseph Cutrono, VP of Engineering with 20+ years in software, shares how he measures AI success, why non-engineers should start the coding process, and what tokens are really costing us.
25 Sept 2026
Combatting Code Slop w/ Mac Merritt
Discussion with Mac Merritt, Sr. Engineer at AWS, about combatting code slop as engineers move from using AI too little... to maybe too much.
14 Sept 2026
Pace the Frontier, or Open It? w/ Mac Merritt
Discussion with Mac Merritt, Sr. Engineer at AWS, about Dario Amodei's essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier." In this episode we discuss whether slowing down the pace of AI advancement is the right answer to security concerns... and is slowing down even possible?
"We Must Pace the Frontier" Essay Link (https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier)
NYT Article (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/technology/anthropic-dario-amodei-ai-slowdown.html?smid=nytcore-android-share)
10 Sept 2026
NYC Schools GenAI Ban w/ Melissa Belardi
We discuss the recent decision to ban student-facing GenAI in New York City Public Schools with Melissa Belardi. Mel has a background in learning science, education, learning products, and has worked with AI in the corporate setting including leading several AI training programs.
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