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A window into tomorrow's software organizations through conversations with visionary engineering leaders who are redefining the profession. Join us to explore how leadership will evolve, what makes high-performing teams tick, and where the true value of engineering lies as technology and human creativity continue to intersect in unexpected ways.
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- Mike Tria on the Un-SDLC · 35 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 20I asked Mike Tria what was working at Gusto now that AI had spread past engineering into product and design. He started with a product Gusto had just launched, Gusto Cofounder…
- Not Every Problem Needs a Sledgehammer · 36 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 19“I spoke to an engineer at one of our suppliers who said that in the last six months, he’s generated a million lines of code.”Michael Frendo, the CTO of New Relic, offered me…
- AI Fails Like We Do · 35 minTen minutes into our conversation, Sylvain Kalache drafted me into a role-play. “Let’s say I’m the SRE and William, you are the developer,” he said. Production is down. He runs…
- The Handoff Tax · 27 min · Sezonul 17I asked Muddassar Shaikh where engineering work is actually heading, and he answered with what he admitted could be the setup to a joke. “This can be the start of a great joke,”…
- Open the Barn Door · 34 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 16Twenty minutes into our conversation, I asked Charity Majors how engineering leaders should be finding good junior engineers right now. “God, I don’t fucking know.” She…
- When Craft Meets Non-Determinism · 40 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 15Superhuman built its reputation on a number: 100 milliseconds. Every interaction in the product has to feel instantaneous. Not fast. Instantaneous. That’s the threshold where the…
- Stop writing code. Start reading it. · 46 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 14We recorded this episode with Steve back in October of 2025, before he invented Beads and Gastown. Several of his predictions have aged well in the months since. Steve Yegge has…
- Principles Over Process with Gaurav Gargate · 31 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 20Most engineering leaders spend enormous energy on process. Which agile framework. Which sprint cadence. Which AI coding tool to adopt. How to standardize workflows across teams…
- Why AI Productivity Gains Are Context-Dependent | With Raju Matta · 36 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 12Some engineering teams are seeing real, measurable AI productivity gains. Cursor is transforming how frontend developers build React apps. AI-assisted code review is catching…
- Building AI Products Under HIPAA | With Muhammad Atif · 35 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 11When you’ve bootstrapped an engineering org from 2 people to 500, working with Fortune 500 clients like Intel and Samsung, you learn something most AI builders miss: the best…
- Stop starving your GPUs—with Jaikumar Ganesh · 41 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 10When you provision thousands of GPU clusters weekly for Apple, Spotify, OpenAI, Uber, Runway, and Cursor, you see something nobody else does. From the infrastructure layer, the…
- Getting People on the Boat with Richard Ford · 35 minMost engineering leaders learn leadership the hard way. They get promoted from IC roles and suddenly find themselves managing people they used to work alongside. They default to…
- Rethinking Technical Interviews with Ashwin Baskaran · 39 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 7Most engineering leaders are still running interviews like it's 2004. Multiple coding rounds. Brain twisters on whiteboards. Engineers throwing their favorite puzzle at…
- The 35-Engineer Hiring Sprint · 36 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 7Most hypergrowth startups hire fast and regret it later. They compromise on quality to fill seats, rationalize cultural misfits as "learning experiences," and spend months fixing…
- Why AI Won't Kill Engineering Jobs · 36 minMike Weaver followed every rule in the engineering playbook. When LLMs started disrupting Replicant's voice automation platform, he did exactly what conventional wisdom dictates…
- Turning Model Limits Into Moats with Troy Astorino · 35 minMost engineering leaders think about AI wrong. When they see a new model, they ask: "How fast can we ship this?" But the interesting question is: "Where will this break?" Troy…
- Why AI Mandates Fail with Adil Ajmal · 35 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 4This week on High Output, Adil Ajmal, CTO of Fandom, tackles the question every engineering leader is wrestling with: How do you get an entire organization to adopt AI without…
- Building in the Age of Abundance · 34 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 3This week on High Output, Tacita Morway, CTO of Textio, reveals why the biggest challenge in the AI era isn't learning new tools—it's learning what not to build. From landscape…
- People-First Leadership in the AI Era · 23 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 2As AI reshapes the what of engineering, leadership is about focusing on the who. This week on High Output, Glenn Veil, SVP of Engineering at Order.co, shares how three decades of…
- Scaling Lean Startups with Raquel Rodriguez · 29 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 1We’re thrilled to share something we’ve been working on at Maestro AI behind the scenes: High Output, a weekly conversation series where visionary engineering leaders unpack how…
