Modern CTO

Today, we're talking to Mario Ciabarra, founder and CEO of Quantum Metric. We discuss why a generative AI demo that works in an afternoon proves almost nothing, how testing ten ideas against real customers beats betting on one big strategy, and why building a multibillion dollar company comes down to loving the daily grind more than anyone expects.

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What’s left for humans to do once AI is better at solving problems than we are? Today, we’re talking to Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist at UT Austin who has spent his career on quantum computing theory. We explore how AI is changing the way we do math and teach students, what it takes to keep increasingly capable systems aligned with human goals, and why one of computer science’s most famous puzzles, P versus NP, matters to everyday programmers.

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The best reliability work is the kind nobody notices, and that's exactly why it deserves more credit. Today, we're talking to Kolton Andrus, founder and CEO of Gremlin. We discuss why the engineers who prevent fires deserve as much recognition as the ones who fight them, how testing failure on purpose turned a dreaded holiday on-call into a quiet one, and why teams that pair AI speed with real-world testing can build software that holds up.

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Most companies at scale can't tell you what a single feature actually costs to run, but Erran Berger, CTO of Engineering at LinkedIn, can. We discuss why that blind spot is more common than you'd think, why treating AI transformation as bad for employees is a false premise, and how LinkedIn reorganized its teams into small, cross-functional pods now that AI lets one person do the work of several.

Today, we're talking to Mohak Shroff, former SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn. We discuss why the smartest use of AI agents is giving professionals more agency rather than replacing them, how delegating to an agent should look a lot like onboarding a new hire, and what it takes to build the thing that was impossible before instead of making the familiar 20% better.

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