Why Every Piece of Software Got 3-10x Less Valuable
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Samuel Colvin on shallow moats, slop forks, and what survives in the agentic era.
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How engineers, PMs, and CTOs at leading tech companies are changing every stage of software development: from ideation to maintenance.
In conversation with the builders
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Every episode maps to a stage of the software lifecycle. Pick where you are right now.
01
IDEATING
43+ EPISODESAI strategy, org design, product vision, autonomous teams, economics of intelligence
BROWSE IDEATING02
DESIGNING
14+ EPISODESUX in the AI era, code-first design, prototyping velocity, human taste vs. AI output
BROWSE DESIGNING03
BUILDING
32+ EPISODESContext engineering, AI-native stacks, code review at scale, architecture decisions
BROWSE BUILDING04
TESTING
7+ EPISODESNon-determinism, guardrails, LLM evals, security, agentic attack surfaces
BROWSE TESTING05
MAINTAINING
4+ EPISODESAI-generated tech debt, legacy code, vibe coding repair, remote-first workflows
BROWSE MAINTAINING