What separates the teams winning in the AI era? With Wei-Wei Wu, CEO at Momentic
Everyone is shipping faster. But speed alone isn't what separates the teams winning right now. Wei-Wei Wu, CEO at Momentic, has a clear take on what does: a tighter feedback loop and the discipline to verify what you're building against what you actually intended to build. In this episode, Wei Wei and host Emma Webb get into why experimentation is the only way to find out what's possible, why the spec needs to be your source of truth and not just a design artifact, and why more code output is...
2 Jul 2026
The IDE is dead. Now what?
Chris Kelly has had a front row seat to every major shift in software engineering, from GitHub to New Relic to Salesforce to Fire Hydrant. His take on where we are now: this one is different. Not faster horses. A completely different kind of work. In this episode, Chris and host Emma Webb get into why the job of a software engineer has fundamentally changed from working the factory line to building the factory itself, what that means for the engineers who loved the craft of writing code, and ...
25 Jun 2026
Has the role of an engineering leader changed? feat. Gregor Ojstersek of Engineering Leadership Newsletter
Gregor has built a community of over 200,000 engineering leaders through his Engineering Leadership Newsletter. He talks to teams across the globe every day so he has a grounded take on what's actually working right now and what's just noise. In this episode, Gregor and host Emma Webb get into why the best engineering leaders aren't chasing 20 agents and five new tools. They're focused on what's always mattered: solving the right problems, serving the business, and taking care of their people...
11 Jun 2026
If you can ship anything, you shouldn't ship everything. With Pranay Prakash, engineering leader at Vercel
Writing code isn't the bottleneck anymore. So what is? Pranay Prakash, engineering leader at Vercel, has a clear answer: taste. In this episode, Pranay and host Emma Webb get into what it means to ship tasteful software in an era where you can ship almost anything, how Vercel maintains its famously high bar for developer experience at nearly 800 people, and why the answer to scaling taste across an org isn't more process. It's obsession. They also get into durable agents and what Vercel Workf...
22 May 2026
How AI is changing the engineering leader's job with Rob Zuber CTO at CircleCI
Rob Zuber has been CTO at CircleCI for nearly 12 years, watching software engineering evolve through the SaaS era, the mobile era, and now the agentic era. This time, he says, the rate of change is different. And so is what it means to lead. In this episode, Rob and host Emma Webb get into what happens to an engineering leader when their expertise is suddenly irrelevant, why Rob's answer was to get hands-on and start building again, and why being AI native isn't a destination you ever actuall...
12 May 2026
We thought we were AI native. We weren't. A conversation with Vinay Perneti, VP of Eng at Augment Code
Even if you work at an AI company, being truly AI native is harder than it sounds. Vinay Perneti, VP of Engineering at Augment Code, knows this firsthand. In this episode, Vinay and host Emma Webb share Augment's own AI native journey. They get into what triggered the realization that the team wasn't AI native enough, how the definition of AI native keeps moving, and what it actually looks like to build an engineering org around agents rather than just alongside them. They also cover what Au...
30 Apr 2026
It's an inventor's time: what AI native engineering really looks like with Andrew Lau, CEO of Jellyfish
Everyone says they want to be AI native. Far fewer organizations actually know what that means or how to get there. Andrew Lau, CEO at Jellyfish, works with engineering teams every day who are trying to close that gap. In this episode, he and host Emma Webb dig into what truly AI native engineering orgs are doing differently. They get into why legacy codebases and established customer bases create a transformation challenge that fresh-start companies simply don't face. They also cover the t...
23 Apr 2026
From FOMO to flow: Justin Reock, CTO at DX on the AI metrics that actually matter
Engineering leaders are drowning in AI hype. Everyone's hearing promises of 5x, 10x productivity gains, and very few are actually seeing them. Justin Reock, CTO at DX (recently acquired by Atlassian), has the data to cut through the noise. Host Emma Webb and Justin get into what top-performing teams are doing differently, why AI coding tools are only attacking 16% of the problem, and what "AI readiness" really means in practice. They also cover rubric-based self-validation for agentic code,...
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