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110: AI Compressed the Work That Built Your Judgment (opens the original)
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Twenty years at one company should have made my guest predictable, and that is exactly the trap he built a method to escape. Build your own CTO Playbook at www.theCTOplaybook.com - the leadership platform built for the full CTO journey. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact. Krystian Kolondra runs the browser portfolio at Opera, a set of products used by more than 300 million people, and he has spent two decades watching what happens to
109: Your Agents Are Held to a Lower Standard Than Your Engineers (opens the original)
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Most CTOs think adopting AI means picking the right tools, but Sumeet argues the real work is closing the accountability gap between agents and engineers. Build your own CTO Playbook at www.theCTOplaybook.com - the leadership platform built for the full CTO journey. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact. My guest this week is Sumeet Vaidya, co-founder and CEO of Crafting, who spent years at Facebook, Uber, and Discord before building the
108: Your Most Valuable Executive Relationship Is the CFO (opens the original)
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Ask a CTO which executive relationship matters most, and they'll name the CEO, but my guest today would send you to the CFO instead. Build your own CTO Playbook at www.theCTOplaybook.com - the leadership platform built for the full CTO journey. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact. Anoop Tripathi is 32 years into a career that spans from writing firmware for telephone exchanges to sitting as CTO at Sauce Labs, and he's unusually direct
107: The Controlled Re-Entry: A CTO Playbook for Coming Back from Holiday (opens the original)
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I nearly turned my own summer into the cautionary tale. The thing that saved me was a last-minute week in the Swedish mountains. Build your own CTO Playbook at www.theCTOplaybook.com - the leadership platform built for the full CTO journey. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact. I came home with a small number of clear thoughts about my business that I couldn't have produced at my desk, and they fade fast once you're back. This episode i
106: Trust, temper, override: managing the AI you don't control (opens the original)
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One CTO spent two weeks tearing frontier models out and ended up back where they started. Another spent a few days building a tested escape route for what actually mattered. Build your own CTO Playbook at www.theCTOplaybook.com - the leadership platform built for the full CTO journey. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact. The safe CTOs aren't the ones who trust their AI provider, and they aren't the ones tearing frontier models out of e
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