Exception Handlers

Alex and Bill interview Bhavini Soneji, CTO at SmithRx, on why AI's impact is inversely proportional to company size and what leaders can do about it through intentional investment in culture, communication, and organizational agility.

Alex and Bill sit down with LA CTO Forum founders Oded Noy and Tony Karrer to celebrate 25 years of bringing LA's top tech leaders together - from scrappy early meetups to navigating dot-com busts, AI booms, and everything in between.

Alex and Bill discuss how engineering practices of clean code, refactoring, and TDD are still relevant when AI is doing most of the coding

Alex and Bill chat with Josh Nisenson, Head of Engineering at Ribeye Media, on how AI is impacting engineering best practices - from automating all the things to rethinking traditional Agile ceremonies.

Alex and Bill chat with Dave Gullo, founder of ooda video, on leveraging AI to build, scale, and exit a company as a solopreneur.

Alex and Bill interview David Zubar, CEO of Interna, on how AI is blurring the line between product and engineering — and why the best product managers of tomorrow will need to think less like storytellers and more like architects.

Alex and Bill interview veteran CTO Amit Masoun on whether non-engineers can really build production-ready apps with AI — and why you should still have a techie friend look at the code.

Alex and Bill sit down with Dan Grosh, Managing Director at Fleming Martin, to unpack the evolving CTO role - AI strategy, talent wars, and the future of tech leadership.

Alex and Bill interview Kuba Fietiewicz and Alex Belotsky of TestSavant.ai on why AI security is evolving beyond Red Teaming toward continuous AI assurance across engineering, QA, and security teams.

Alex and Bill interview Jared Zoneraich, CEO and Co-founder of PromptLayer, on the evolution of agentic AI - from DAGs to agentic loops.

Alex and Bill interview Erick Herring, CTO of Vynyl, on how AI is breaking the software development status quo - changing how software gets built and which engineers survive the transition.

How should teams measure success in the age of AI? Alex and Bill recap a recent panel on AI metrics and dive into developer productivity, AI-driven workflows, and the engineering changes needed to maximize impact.

Alex and Bill wrap up the year by discussing the new economics of code. Topics include the rise of agentic AI, its impact on developer productivity and the cost of software, the limits and tradeoffs of AI-generated code, the emergence of N-of-1 custom software for individual clients, the viability of one-developer shops, and the broader economic implications of these shifts for the software indust...

Alex and Bill interview Denise Tilles, a Product Coach and Trainer, as well as the co-author of Product Operations: How Successful Companies Build Product At Scale

Alex and Bill review the results of LA CTO Forum's member survey on the impact of AI on software development and the enterprise.

Alex and Bill chat about a recent panel discussion, jointly sponsored by LA CTO Forum and PMLA, on the impact of AI on Product Management. Topics covered include why AI projects fail, how the role of product managers is evolving, the impact AI has on customer experience, team dynamics in the age of AI, and, of course, software development with AI.

Alex and Bill interview Mahesh Guruswamy, CTO, executive coach, and author of a new book called How to Deliver Bad News and Get Away With It.

Alex and Bill chat about a recent LA CTO Forum panel discussion on the impact of AI on software development. Topics include how AI is transforming software development, covering the shift from junior to senior developer impact, new hiring challenges, evolving QA practices for non-deterministic systems, and strategies for managing legacy code with AI assistance.