New fear unlocked! Sam Ransbotham, Professor at @BostonCollege and AI Editor at @mitsmr raises a question worth sitting with: Are these tools a head start or a crutch?

From a $15 streaming stick to a $2,000 foldable phone. António Vieira explains why building a streaming app isn't just about the code. 🎧 Full episode with António Vieira, Director of Global Apps Engineering at @skytv , available wherever you listen.

Joel swears someone built a "desire to lie" into the original algorithms. Sam Ransbotham, Professor at @BostonCollege and AI Editor at @mitsmr feels the pain too. AI will invent methods on objects that would be wonderful... if they actually existed.

Everybody THINKS they want to keep their data private... Sam Ransbotham, Professor at @BostonCollege and AI Editor at @mitsmr is researching something fascinating: what happens when you train AI models on 1,000 X-rays versus 10,000 versus 20,000?

All tech is witchcraft. Until... Sam Ransbotham, Professor at @BostonCollege and AI Editor at @mitsmr puts it perfectly: 200 years ago, a quill that changed color when you misspelled a word would have gotten you burned at the stake.

Joel picked a fight. And Brad was ready for it. ☁️ "You said cloud as something different than on-prem. I'm old, right?" Brad Parks from @HPE brought it back to the NIST definition from over a decade ago: cloud isn't a place.

"I'll be the most extroverted introvert in the room." Brad Parks from @HPE describes himself as an engineer with low social anxiety who's carried a sales quota. A CS degree holder who spent a decade doing the technical work before shifting focus to bringing products to life.

"Be curious." Brad Parks from @HPE borrowed this gem from Ted Lasso, and it's career advice worth repeating. It's about listening. Asking better questions. Leading with empathy. But Brad adds a twist: have an opinion and don't be afraid to voice it.

Jason Sobel, CTO at @nytimes, is looking for one thing when he hires: relentless problem solvers. Not people who always have the answer. People who always find a way to get one. "You know how to get through or around or over whatever wall's in front of you."

What is Morpheus? Brad Parks from @HPE breaks it down like this: "It's a little like Google Translate for IT."

Jason Sobel, CTO at @nytimes, shares the leadership lesson that stuck with him: stop sugarcoating hard conversations. "You don't need to be a jerk. You can be empathetic and caring, but still be really honest with someone."

70% of journalism jobs have disappeared in the last 25 years. Jason Sobel, CTO at @nytimes , breaks down what happened. "Most people in America don't have a local paper anymore... Even the state paper has either gone out of business or is really a shell of itself."

When Joel asked Jason Sobel if @nytimes has a model "running wild making news up," his answer was refreshingly clear. Every story is written by humans. Edited by humans. With layers of editorial oversight. So what is generative AI actually doing at the Times?

Trust is earned in increments. Joel compared it to his experience with Tesla's full self-driving. Brian Gruttadauria sees the same pattern playing out with enterprise AI. That's why @HPE is keeping humans in the loop for the foreseeable future.

The best career advice Brian Gruttadauria, CTO at @HPE ever received: don't be afraid to take a risk. He faced two paths. One was safe, managing a small team. The other was far riskier but more innovative.

Senior devs question the code. Junior devs hit accept. Brian Gruttadauria sees it happening in real time with GitHub Copilot at @HPE . The experienced engineers are more skeptical of AI suggestions while newer developers tend to trust the output without a second look.

There is a fear that AI in customer service is just about cutting costs, but Adrian McDermott sees it differently. The CTO at @Zendesk compares the AI boom to the evolution of software engineering. Leaders didn't fire developers when tools made them more productive.

It never gets better than the interview. Mark Porter, CTO at @dbt_labs , has seen it play out too many times: a candidate says something off, maybe trashes their current employer, and the hiring team thinks, "We can train that out of them."

Never send the angry email. Mark Porter, CTO at @dbt_labs , learned this the hard way. Years of hitting send, feeling powerful for a moment, then feeling like an idiot two hours later.

Let's be real: your boss controls whether you can pay rent. Mark Porter, CTO at @dbt_labs , doesn't care how much granola you eat or how "flat" your org chart claims to be. There's a power dynamic, and pretending otherwise is naive.