Agentic AI Execution

**The internet has fundamentally changed.** Over 60% of web traffic is now driven by AI agents, not humans. If you are still building landing pages and products exclusively for people, you are missing the biggest shift since the dot-com boom. In this episode of *Agentic AI Execution*, Mariane—Head of DevRel at You.com and founder of the Founders Bay community—breaks down why we are entering an AI...

What if the hardest problem in AI agents isn't memory — it's judgment? In this episode of Agentic AI Execution, I sit down with Adelina — former colleague at Cruise, later at Vercel, and now founder of Rory Plans, building AI agents for organizational decision-making. We get into why agents with perfect memory still make the wrong recommendation, why bad decisions compound faster than you&...

*Are you vibe coding your way into a massive cloud billing nightmare?* AI agents are already writing code, reviewing ads, and making autonomous decisions. But who is actually watching them? In this episode, Leena sits down with Lulu, a data infrastructure expert who has scaled systems at Capital One, Block, and Reddit. They break down the "real talk" of scaling AI safely, why AI-generate...

Engineering velocity just skyrocketed. Code is being written, tested, and shipped 10x faster than ever before thanks to generative and agentic AI.And yet — product failure rates are rising. Why? Because speeding up execution doesn't automatically mean progress. The bottleneck was never engineering. It was always judgment. In this episode, host Leena sits down with Revital — executive coach, st...

In this episode of Agentic AI Execution, Priyanka Shinde—founder of Solomate AI and former TPM leader at Meta and Cruise—joins the show. Following the massive wave of tech layoffs, Priyanka shares raw insights on why your job title might change, but your core execution and leadership skills are evergreen. We dive deep into how "English is the hottest new programming language", the realit...

Most companies fall in love with their AI on day one. Nobody asks what happens on day two. In this episode of Agentic AI Execution, I sit down with Noelle Russell — Employee #10 at Amazon Alexa, founder of the AI Leadership Institute, and closing in on 1 million views on her TED Talk. We cover:→ Why most AI systems go rogue (and who's really responsible)→ The principle of least privilege — and...

Anya Eydman advises startups, utilities, and government agencies on deploying real innovation in energy and critical infrastructure — some of the most regulated environments in the world. She's a 2x founder who has built partnerships across 400+ organizations and generated $15M+ in strategic value. She knows exactly what it takes to move from idea to real-world deployment. In this episode we c...

Brendan Beh has run hundreds of hackathons across APAC and built AI.SEA — a grassroots network of 10,000+ builders across 8 APAC countries. He knows exactly who holds up under pressure and why. In this episode we cover:→ How to move fast in hackathons without blowing things up→ Why AI is best treated like a really smart intern→ What separates serious builders from surface-level hackers→ How APAC i...

The Ultimate Tech Survival Guide: Rebuilding After Tech Layoffs & Thriving as an AI TPM 🚀What do you do when a "Reduction in Force" hits you at one of the biggest tech companies in the world? In this episode, we sit down with Kopal, a tech program leader with 15+ years of experience across Intel, Google, and Amazon. In April 2025, Kopal was caught in a massive Google layoff wave—dri...

Ilya co-founded AWS Chatbot — now Amazon Q for Developers — before large language models even existed. Today he builds agentic AI platforms and has one of the most thoughtful personal AI systems I've come across. We worked together at AWS, and this conversation reminded me why his thinking has always been a step ahead.00:00 Introduction02:18 Why Ilya runs every AI workflow manually03:34 The lo...

Former Amazon Senior PM and Maven instructor GK joins the show to explain why "vibing" with AI isn't enough to build professional-grade systems. She introduces Spec Engineering—her tactical framework for moving beyond the prompt to build high-quality, deterministic AI agents.📌 Timestamps:0:00 - Introduction to GK2:15 - AI as a tool for Neurodivergence8:40 - Why Vibe Coding doesn't scale12:50 - Th...

In 2026, 36% of all new ventures are solo-founded. We are witnessing the birth of the "Invisible Enterprise"—a model where human founders stop "doing" and start "directing" a swarm of autonomous agents to handle everything from revenue operations to legal negotiations. In this episode of Agentic AI Execution, I sit down with Tim Cortinovis to discuss the shift from &q...

95% of AI agents never leave the demo stage. They look great in a prototype — and then collapse under real production pressure. In this episode, Jyothi Nookula (ex-AWS, Meta, Netflix | 12 patents | 1,500+ PMs coached) breaks down exactly what separates the agents that ship from the ones that don't — and what it means for product managers building in the agentic era right now. What you'll l...

Is AI quietly ending the junior developer career path? Leah Melvoin spent 23 years at Amazon — she joined when the company had ~100 employees and left as a Principal TPM who personally resolved over 200 engineering pain points. She created the Voice of the Developer program and wrote the leveling guides thousands of engineers still use today. In this episode, she gives an unfiltered take on what a...

Most AI programs fail—not because of the technology, but because of broken trust and misaligned decision ownership. In this debut episode of Agentic AI Execution, Jenny Truong (14 years at Meta leading Newsfeed and Stories) joins Leena Agarwal to break down the honest, practical playbook for executing AI programs that actually scale. In this episode, we cover: ✦ The APP Framework: Acknowledge, Pla...