Bits and Bolts With Paulina
Bits & Bolts with Paulina dives into the nuts and bolts of cloud, DevOps, and the future of technology. Each episode brings candid conversations with industry leaders, uncovering how they build trust in data, adopt AI responsibly, and design platforms that truly scale.
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Ex CTO & Founder: AI Bubble Could Burst in 18 Months and Managing Coding Agents! | Paulo André (opens the original)
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Fractional CTO Paulo André joins Paulina to make the case that we're in an AI bubble — and that coding was never the real bottleneck in software delivery. They dig into why AI is making engineering teams busier without making businesses faster, the "rookie mistake" Paulo made by over-building his own AI-powered cycling app, and why token costs, guardrails, and the 80/20 principle matter more than ever in the coding agent era.
Ex-Bitpanda CPTO on the FinTech growth trap that kills startups (opens the original)
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Victor Tuson Palau, 3x unicorn CTO and former CPTO at Bitpanda, joins Paulina to explain why nearly every successful startup runs on a monolith, why shipping more features doesn't always mean more revenue, and why it took a regulator to force financial companies to guarantee their systems actually work. They also dig into why scaling a fintech is a different beast entirely from scaling a typical SaaS company, from fragmented payment rails across Europe to the chaos of proving your address in dif
AI Security Expert George Fahmy: There Will Always Be A Way To Trick AI Agents (opens the original)
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In this episode, George Fahmy, founder of Stakpak, breaks down why AI guardrails built on machine learning can always be tricked, why least-privilege access breaks down once agents start spawning their own sub-agents, and the real story of an AI agent hex-dumping files to sneak secrets past a security filter.
Google's DORA Lead on AI : I wouldn't trust AI that much (opens the original)
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Google's DORA team just found something counterintuitive: 90% of developers now use AI daily, and most feel more productive. But at the team level, deployment instability is increasing. In this episode, Nathen Harvey, Head of DORA at Google Cloud, joins Paulina to unpack why AI amplifies both the best and worst parts of your engineering systems. They cover the hidden "verification tax" of AI-generated code, why only 4% of developers say they trust AI's output "a great deal," the J-curve every te
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