This Has Always Been A Problem: Slot Machine Devs and Growing Junior Engineers in the Age of AI
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub discuss how managing armies of coding agents can be physically draining, likening it to context switchin...
14 Juli 56min
From Chaos to Control: Bringing Specification Driven Design to Vibe Coding with David Bauer
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, host Brad Hefta-Gaub is joined by Dr. David Bauer of Axonis AI, who shares how his background in distributed computing, startups, and the U.S....
7 Juli 51min
Introducing Skein and Beaker Stack: Using AI Agent Engineers to Ship SaaS Faster
In this special episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub discuss Brad's experiment proving that AI can dramatically boost output for teams with strong en...
30 Juni 49min
AI and the Data Swamp In Your Backyard with Ben Wilcox
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub interview guest Ben Wilcox, CTO and CISO of ProArch, a Microsoft-focused data and AI system integrator. ...
23 Juni 47min
Pioneering Music Education with John von Seggern
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, Brad Hefta-Gaub interviews John Von Seggern, founder/CEO/CTO of Future Proof Music School, about his shift from musician and online educator t...
16 Juni 44min
Removing Bottlenecks, Not People with Stephanie Sylvestre
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad is joined by guest Stephanie Sylvestre, founder of AvatarBuddy, an AI company started 10 years ago to help people be the bes...
9 Juni 41min
Pioneer or Perish: How and When to Evolve Your Engineering Org Toward the AI Development Life Cycle
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub discuss a high-performing engineering team that has effectively cleared its product backlog while using ...
2 Juni 33min
Navigating the Future: Gas Town and Bespoke AI Agents
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub discuss Brad's viral LinkedIn post arguing that AI has collapsed the economics that drove generalized Sa...
27 Maj 43min
