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Ctrl Alt Dev is a podcast for software founders, digital leaders and curious builders navigating the fast-changing world of tech, AI, and business. Hosted by two veteran tech founders, Paul Rhodes & Sean Sale.
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Episode #37: The Screen is the Software: Runway's Solaris and the Death of Code (opens the original)
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Hosts: Sean Sale and Paul Rhodes Episode Summary: I magine an application with absolutely no code underneath—no HTML, no JavaScript, and no database. Every single button click, swipe, and frame is being dynamically imagined and painted by an AI in real time. In this "Deep Dive" episode, recorded hot off the press just days after the announcement, Sean and Paul explore Solaris, the revolutionary new "interface world model" unveiled by Runway on Monday, August 31, 2026. As owners of software busin
Episode #36: The Invisible AI Watermark & The Corporate Compliance Time Bomb (opens the original)
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Hosts: Sean Sale and Paul Rhodes Guest: Tim Winstanley (Founder of Resolve Tech) The next document your business writes using AI could carry a hidden signature you cannot see—an invisible, statistical watermark designed to prove an AI model was involved. In this milestone episode, Sean and Paul welcome back Tim Winstanley from Resolve Tech to pull apart the massive legal, technical, and operational ramifications of AI watermarking. Propelled by the transparency requirements of Article 50 of the
Episode #35: The Office AI Employee: Grokbot, 10 Agency Use Cases, and the 20% Challenge (opens the original)
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Hosts: Sean Sale and Paul Rhodes Episode Summary: Welcome to Episode 35 of CTRL-ALT-DEV! Sean is back in the studio, looking relaxed and heavily tanned from a holiday in 40-degree heat, leaving Paul to successfully pilot their very first "Panel Review" format completely solo last week. Today, we are putting high-level future-gazing aside and focusing on the immediate present. We pull apart Grokbot, the persistent AI teammate platform that launched in early beta on August 11, 2026. This is the ag
Episode #34: AI 2027: Plausible Future or Irresponsible Fear-Mongering? (Our First Ever Panel Review) (opens the original)
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Host: Paul Rhodes (flying solo on hosting duties while Sean takes a break). The Panelists: Peter Lowe: Founder of Smart AI Studio, helping SME leadership teams get AI-ready and publisher of security checklists for vibe-coded apps. Craig Hellen: Founder of Bex Media, video production and motion graphics agency in Gloucester (dialing in from his holiday in Denmark). Jeremy "Jez" Strong: Founder and CEO of Invoco, a cloud telephony and call tracking business with over 20 years of tech infrastructur
Episode #33: From Chartered Accountant to Vibe Coder: Launching Golf Duels with AI (opens the original)
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Hosts: Paul Rhodes (flying solo this week as Sean is off sunning himself) . Guest: Brandon Himsley (Chartered Accountant and Founder of Golf Duels). What happens when a chartered accountant with zero coding experience, a golf obsession, and a few hundred pounds decides to build a mobile app? In this episode of CTRL-ALT-DEV, Paul Rhodes sits down with Brandon Himsley to unpack the incredible, warts-and-all journey of building and beta-testing his matchmaking platform, Golf Duels. We explore how B
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