Modern CTO

His company policy is: there will be absolutely no human-written code.

Today, we're talking to Trevor Hinesley, Cofounder and CTO at Soundstripe. We discuss the five levels of AI-written code and what it actually looks like to operate at the highest ones, why Trevor's team has a strict policy of zero human-written code, how the "dark factory" concept is reshaping what engineers actually do, and why a company built on AI-powered development still bets everything on human-made music.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! 

To learn more about Soundstripe, check out their website here.

Product managers are FORGETTING that they’re problem solvers.

Today, we're talking to Marty Cagan, product management author and founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group. We discuss why most tech companies are unknowingly running a model that almost guarantees shipping things that don't matter, how AI is simultaneously exposing and accelerating that problem, why the real bottleneck was never your engineers, and how large language models might finally solve the product coaching gap that's held back a generation of product people.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! 

To learn more about Marty, connect with him on LinkedIn.

Can today’s technology really prevent tomorrow’s diseases?

Today, we're talking to Eriona Hysolli, biologist and co-founder of Manhattan Genomics. We discuss why preventing genetic disease before birth is a more powerful idea than treating it in adulthood, how the UK quietly pioneered a procedure that most of the world still considers off-limits, why the loudest opposition to gene editing often comes from bioethicists rather than the public, and what it would actually take to engineer traits — from woolly mouse hair to human limb regeneration — with enough certainty to act on.

To learn more about Eriona, connect with her on LinkedIn.

Understanding the real world is the biggest potential advantage of AI.

Today, we're talking to Campbell Brown, CEO and cofounder of PredictHQ, about the layer of real-world intelligence that AI models are still missing. We discuss why 65% of unexplained demand spikes come down to something most businesses completely ignore, how a New Zealand car rental company became the data backbone for Uber and Expedia, why the era of reading API documentation is effectively over, and what it actually means to "eat stress" as a founder — and why reconciling it matters just as much.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! 

To learn more about PredictHQ, check out their website here.

If you understand this about your brain, you’ll be unstoppable.

Today, we're talking to Moran Cerf, neuroscientist and professor, about why the hidden signals shaping human behavior have more in common with ants and fish than we'd like to admit, how smell — not vision — may be the most underestimated force behind the decisions we make, why brains in the same room quietly synchronize whether their owners agree or not, and what it actually means when an alien looking down from the moon asks what the humans are building.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! 

To learn more about Moran's work, check out his website here.