The CTO Podcast. Wisdom from the top of the top.

149 conversations with the CTOs who built it — about what actually worked, not what’s in the deck. Hosted by Tobias Schlottke.

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Founder of alphalist, former CTO. Talks to the people who built it — about what actually worked, not what's in the deck.

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Git Is the Wrong Tool Now: Rewriting the Social Contract of Agentic Teams with Raffi Krikorian // CTO @ Mozilla
EP 148Git Is the Wrong Tool Now: Rewriting the Social Contract of Agentic Teams with Raffi Krikorian // CTO @ MozillaRaffi Krikorian
"Make It Secure" Isn't a Prompt: A L0pht Hacker on Securing AI-Written Code with Chris Wysopal // Chief Security Evangelist @ Veracode
EP 147"Make It Secure" Isn't a Prompt: A L0pht Hacker on Securing AI-Written Code with Chris Wysopal // Chief Security Evangelist @ VeracodeChris Wysopal
AI Found What Nine Years of Security Research Missed with Charles Guillemet // CTO @ Ledger
EP 146AI Found What Nine Years of Security Research Missed with Charles Guillemet // CTO @ LedgerCharles Guillemet
"Harness Writing Is Not Hard": Build to Learn, Not to Run
EP 145"Harness Writing Is Not Hard": Build to Learn, Not to RunDavid Soria Parra
Writing Code Is No Longer the Job: Dana Lawson on Trusting AI Agents Like Self-Driving Cars // CTO @ Netlify
EP 144Writing Code Is No Longer the Job: Dana Lawson on Trusting AI Agents Like Self-Driving Cars // CTO @ NetlifyDana Lawson
The Company Brain: How Kombo Runs on a Git Repo and a Cursor Agent — with Aike Hillbrands, Co-Founder & CTO @ Kombo
EP 143The Company Brain: How Kombo Runs on a Git Repo and a Cursor Agent — with Aike Hillbrands, Co-Founder & CTO @ KomboAike Hillbrands
Why LLMs Need Their Own Programming Language: From Assembly to AI with Vaibhav Gupta // Co-founder @ BAML
EP 142Why LLMs Need Their Own Programming Language: From Assembly to AI with Vaibhav Gupta // Co-founder @ BAMLVaibhav Gupta
AI Pat Works Here Now: Why Agents Must Follow Human Rules with Pat Casey // CTO @ ServiceNow
EP 141 AI Pat Works Here Now: Why Agents Must Follow Human Rules with Pat Casey // CTO @ ServiceNowPat Casey