About this podcast
Code & Connor is where Connor Deeks and Dorian Smiley ask the questions most AI podcasts won't. Two founders — one strategist, one engineer — in honest conversations with executives, builders, and practitioners about what's actually happening at the intersection of AI and the enterprise. Learn from collaborations with customers and partners, see Codestrap's technology in action, and get perspective on the hottest issues within the AI industry. No hype. Just real, unvarnished discussion with the industry's smartest people.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 47 episodes
- CxC Ep45: Where AI Goes From Here · 49 minThis week on Code x Connor, Connor Deeks and Dorian Smiley discuss the growing challenges around AI, whether companies are getting enough value from it and the rising costs of…
- CxC Ep44: Can We Rely on AI? - with Przemyslaw Nowak · 57 minThis week on Code x Connor, Connor Deeks and Dorian Smiley are joined by Codestrap founding partner and principal engineer Przemyslaw Nowak to discuss one of the biggest…
- CxC Ep43: The AI Industry Enters Choppy Waters - with Anand Pant · 52 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Anand Pant, Founding Partner and Builder at Codestrap, to discuss the growing financial risks facing the AI industry, the challenges…
- CxC Ep. 42 The Business of AI: The Fallout Continues with Bryce Leszczynski (Codestrap) · 50 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Bryce Leszczynski, Founding Partner and Business Platform Lead at Codestrap, to discuss whether the massive investment in AI…
- CxC Ep41: Is “AI Doom” Genuine Fear or Good Marketing? - with Benjamin Rogojan & Phil Sparks · 49 minThis week on Code x Connor, Codestrap Founding Partners Benjamin Rogojan and Phil Sparks join Connor to discuss the latest wave of AI doomsday warnings, what recent incidents…
- CxC Ep40: Who Controls AI? - with Neil Sahota (loanDNA) · 1 h 14 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Neil Sahota of loanDNA to discuss the global race to govern AI, how the technology is reshaping information and cybersecurity, and the…
- CxC Ep39: What Business Leaders Need to Know About AI · 1 h 3 minThis week on Code x Connor, Connor and Dorian unpack the growing disconnect between individual AI productivity and actual business performance, why agentic systems could…
- CxC Ep38: How AI Is Reshaping Higher Education - with Dr. Glen Lowry (Edufirm) · 1 h 15 minIn this episode of Code x Connor, we’re joined by Dr. Glen Lowry of Edufirm to discuss the impact of AI on higher education, why universities are struggling to adapt at the speed…
- CxC Ep37: Is Open Source the Future of AI? - with Ahmad Osman & Michael Bradley (Osmantic) · 1 h 13 minThis week on Code x Connor, we're joined by Ahmad Osman and Michael Bradley, co-founders of Osmantic, to discuss why open source AI is rapidly closing the gap on frontier models…
- The Agent Loop Is a Recursive Tax · 25 minMost AI agents today run on the same pattern: give the model a goal, dump in a giant system prompt, let it loop through tool calls until it decides it's done. It's flexible. It's…
- CxC Ep36: AI Industry Rundown - with Benjamin Rogojan & Anand Pant · 51 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Codestrap Founding Partners Benjamin Rogojan and Anand Pant to break down the latest developments shaping the AI industry—from…
- CxC Ep35: How AI Is Transforming the Insurance Industry - with Sam Piecz (Corgi) · 1 h 2 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Sam Piecz of Corgi to discuss how AI is reshaping the insurance industry, the emergence of new AI-driven risk categories, and the…
- CxC Ep34: AI Industry Rundown - with Anand Pant & Przemysław Nowak · 1 h 12 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Codestrap’s own Anand Pant and Przemysław Nowak to discuss the latest news around AI, from the increasingly unsustainable cost of…
- CxC Ep33: AI Coding’s Productivity Paradox - with Andrew Boyagi (Atlassian) · 1 h 15 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Andrew Boyagi of Atlassian to discuss why AI is accelerating software development without necessarily accelerating business outcomes…
- CxC Ep32: Private Equity’s AI Reality Check - with Lee McCabe (Claymore Partners) · 1 h 5 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Lee McCabe of Claymore Partners to discuss the convergence of AI and private equity, why firms are struggling to create operational…
- CxC Ep31: DevEx Matters: Snowflake Gets It Right With Cortex Code - with Umesh Unnikrishnan (Snowflake) · 1 h 1 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Umesh Unnikrishnan of Snowflake to discuss the evolution from vibe coding to agentic engineering, how AI is reshaping developer…
- CxC Ep30: Building AI Systems That Don’t Break the Business - with Brian Fornelli (Conagra) · 1 h 13 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Brian Fornelli of Conagra Brands to discuss operationalizing AI in large enterprises, why companies are overcomplicating adoption, and…
- CxC Ep29: The Dilemma of AI Pricing - with Maciej Kraus (Movens Capital) · 1 h 3 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Maciej Kraus, partner at Movens Capital and Stanford guest lecturer, to discuss current AI pricing models, their limitations, and what…
- CxC Ep28: AI & Data That Work at Enterprise Scale - with Jarek Sobanski (Swiss Re) · 58 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Jarek Sobanski of Swiss Re to discuss managing complexity at scale, how Foundry enables a data-connected enterprise, and where AI is…
- CxC Ep 27: AI in the News - with Dom Selvon & Tarek Nseir (Valiance) · 57 minThis week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Tarek Nseir and Dom Selvon of Valiance to discuss the latest in AI news, from the UK’s attempt to oust Palantir from the NHS to Claude…
