What Broke in Tech: Code Quality, AI Guardrails, and the Evolving Software Engineer
Brad & Scott continue to recap Gergely Orosz's "State of the Tech Industry" talk and focus on what "broke" and "what's next. " They argue that machine-generated code is overwhelming pull requests and code review, exposing that many organizations' quality gates were implicitly built around human speed, and they discuss how 98% uptime is becoming an unacceptable norm.
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Two CTOs, one question: how many does it take?
Hosted by Brad Hefta-Gaub and Scott Porad, How Many CTOs? is a candid conversation about the challenges and decisions technology leaders face, with guest CTOs and senior technical leaders from across the industry and a healthy dose of humor.
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