What Broke in Tech: Code Quality, AI Guardrails, and the Evolving Software Engineer
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub continue to recap Gergely Orosz's "State of the Tech Industry" talk and focus on what "broke" and "what'...
3 Nov 36min
The State of Tech in 2026: What Changed And What Didn't
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub discuss a Pragmatic Engineer talk on the state of the tech industry in 2026, focusing on what changed an...
27 Okt 32min
The Human Needs in Augmented Coding: A Conversation with Kent Beck
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub interview software pioneer Kent Beck about his background (JUnit, test-driven development, extreme progr...
20 Okt 1h 9min
Preparing for the Worst: Tabletop Exercises, Unit Tests, and Everything In Between
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub discuss TaskRabbit's overnight AWS region migration from us-west-1 to us-west-2, describing the months o...
13 Okt 44min
Understanding The Fear: Adaptive Leadership in the AI Age
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub discuss growing fear about AI among engineers and managers, framing it as an "adaptive moment" requiring...
6 Okt 34min
Simplifying Tech Through Empathy and Understanding with Frank Bravo
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, host Brad Hefta-Gaub is joined by guest Frank Bravo, a Bay Area technologist who spent 30 years as CTO in local media, helping put a newspaper...
29 Sep 50min
Managing Skepticism: Balancing Tradition and Technology with AI
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub discuss how AI is changing software engineering referencing Kent Beck's idea that AI makes much existing...
22 Sep 49min
From Academia to Industry: Scott Hanson on the Future of AI and Edge Computing
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub interview Scott Hanson, founder and CTO of Ambiq, a company focused on ultra-low-power chips for "intell...
15 Sep 45min
