Episodes 71
Avg. Duration 51m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (7)
Since Nov 2023
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Talking about the good, the bad, and the ugly of how software gets made, and the people involved along the way

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E071: Agents, Bunkers, and Cults: the new ABCs of AI

Apr 02, 2026 46m

From the CEO of an Agentic AI company telling you that agentic AI is the inevitable future (surely not because he's financially incentivized to make you believe that), to billionaires buying bunkers…

E070: Taking control of your career direction through new roles, and other Reddit ?s

Mar 26, 2026 35m

It's another Reddit grab bag as we answer some folks questions about career path options for Product Owners, how to get the most out of your 1:1 time with your manager, and whether Product Managers…

E069: Toxic Dreams: A Look at Silicon Valley’s AI Delusions

Mar 12, 2026 46m

This week we take a look at some viral TikTok clips and react to the insane testimony of Google's Eric Schmidt asking for unlimited energy and an abolition of regulation to help them build nuclear…

E068: AI for Product Managers, Engineers who won’t estimate, and more

Mar 03, 2026 34m

It's a Reddit questions episode! We discuss whether the future of Product Management is a hybrid AI-driven PM/engineer role, what to do when an engineer refuses to give you an estimate, a Product…

E067: The secret weakness at the heart of the K-Shaped Economy

Feb 17, 2026 1h 27m

Ignoring the risks of the AI economy has left us perched precariously on a three-legged stool. Just one leg needs to collapse to bring us all down. Join the discussion on Reddit:…

E066: Are AI “actors” a great innovation or the death of art?

Jan 29, 2026 35m

Is Tilly Norwood - the AI "actor" - a good thing for Hollywood, or does it herald the end of all human creativity and the death of art itself? Just a quick little debate we have this episode in…

E065: Grok’s Gross Graphics, Meta’s Massive Mistake, and more news

Jan 22, 2026 1h 2m

It's a news roundup where we look at four stories from recent tech news, including Elon Musk's favorite LLM Grok going full-pedo recently, Mark Zuckerburg's $70 Billion oopsie, and Google realizing…

E064: Is there such a thing as Too Much Planning?

Jan 15, 2026 29m

On this week's episode we dig into some challenges people have with agile architecture and planning processes and critique a particularly obnoxious Reddit reply while we're at it. Join the discussion…

E063: Subscriptions everywhere! Can SaaS be good? Or always risky?

Jan 08, 2026 1h 22m

Why is everything a subscription these days? TV, movies, books, music - you don't seem to own anything anymore. This week we dig into the history of how the industry evolved into the SaaS model and…

E062: AI’s horrific hidden costs are slowly being revealed

Dec 04, 2025

From layoffs to mental health crises, we are starting to get a clearer picture of the horrible impacts AI is having on all of us, and in this episode we continue to ask what the government and our…

E061: Myths about the economy the AI Revolution is rejecting

Nov 25, 2025

In Part 2 of our look back at the Industrial Revolution, we examine the impact on the economy and workers, discuss how economists at the time, even as far back as 1830, were justifying the scale of…

E060: Urgent lessons from the Industrial Revolution about AI (no really)

Nov 20, 2025

No, you didn't misread that, we're doing a two-part history lesson on the radical earth-altering time period known as the Industrial Revolution, and what it can teach us about our modern day…

E059: Should Google NotebookLM Keep the Human in the Loop

Oct 23, 2025

It's a product review episode! We take a look at the new Google NotebookLM AI studio that tries to help people synthesize data sources into digestible materials like videos, podcasts, flashcards, and…

E058: Product flexibility will lead to better outcomes

Aug 28, 2025

Whether it's working with engineering teams on story point estimations or managing the feedback from marginalized user bases, good Product Management requires you to be adaptable to the situation and…

E057: Outsourcing your brain to AI is bad, actually

Aug 14, 2025

Well, that WAS going to be the title of the episode. What started as a conversation over vibe coding tools and the challenges of paying a corporation who is subsidizing their Generative AI models to…

E056: Learning when NOT to build that cool new feature

Mar 27, 2025

Sometimes the better answer is to not do anything at all. If you can't prove the value of a feature or that the effort to achieve that value is worth it, saying "no" to the idea is often the best…

E055: Mark Zuckerberg and Meta bend the knee to bigotry

Feb 07, 2025

Kevin gets a little spicy in this bleep-filled episode discussing the latest changes to Meta's policies around fact-checking and hate speech. Trans rights are human rights, and bowing to pressure…

E054: Is Deep Seek’s AI the ultimate disruptor?

Jan 31, 2025

Chinese LLM company Deep Seek upended the AI market this week with a new AI model that is comparable to ChatGPT and other AIs but appears to have cost barely $5 million to create. At one-twentieth…

E053: Is there value in fixing every bug?

Jan 23, 2025

We tackle some more Reddit questions, including someone who's looking for ways to track their teams' mood, how to find a mentor, how often to constructively criticize your agile process, and whether…

E052: Why don’t front-ends look like the superior UX designs?

Jan 16, 2025

From understanding why UX designs don't always translate to the actual front-end code, to finding the creativity and joy in maintaining other people's code, it's another Reddit grab bag. Join the…

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