Beyond Vibe Coding

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Beyond Vibe Coding is a weekly podcast for senior engineering leaders navigating the impact of AI on how software gets built. Hosted by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer in partnership with Impala Search, each episode brings together the leaders shaping the next era of engineering - from how teams are adopting AI, to what changes for product and architecture, to what stays unchanged when the tools shift underneath us. New episodes weekly.

  1. 1d ago

    #S2.18 Agentic Engineering Needs Better Planning, Not More One-Shotting - Yenny Cheung (Bluefish AI)

    Yenny Cheung, VP Engineering at Bluefish, joins us to discuss what agentic engineering looks like when quality, compliance and customer trust are non-negotiable. She explains why daily AI briefings can be valuable even when imperfect, why one-shotting complex work fails, and why teams need to move more alignment into the planning stage. We also cover a practical operating model for business-owned skills: engineering owns the CI/CD pipeline, isolated environments and deterministic checks while customer-facing teams own the workflows closest to their problems. Yenny shares how Bluefish scopes a KTLO agent, monitors model cost and thinks about outcome metrics beyond raw output. Finally, we discuss Claude Artifacts, generative interfaces and the enduring value of taste: knowing what good looks like is still the human work. -- Beyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit www.bvc.fm, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn⁠⁠. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.

    #S2.18 Agentic Engineering Needs Better Planning, Not More One-Shotting - Yenny Cheung (Bluefish AI)

  2. Oct 1

    #S2.17 Don’t Design AI for Your Company. Redesign Your Company for AI - Stefan (Infinite Mind)

    What does it take to make AI change a company rather than become another pilot programme? Stefan Atanassov, co-founder of Infinite Mind, joins us to argue that the decisive work is not choosing a model. It is redesigning processes, roles, skills and governance around the value the company wants to create. We discuss why CEOs must own the AI narrative, why generic tool rollouts and generic training fail, how role-specific enablement develops real intuition and why scaling needs permissions, security, governance and cost management from the beginning. Stefan also explains why the goal is for AI to become boring: embedded safely in the way work gets done. -- Beyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit www.bvc.fm, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn⁠⁠. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.

    #S2.17 Don’t Design AI for Your Company. Redesign Your Company for AI - Stefan (Infinite Mind)

  3. Sep 24

    #S2.16 The AI Apocalypse Debate: What the Hugging Face Incident Actually Changed

    What should leaders make of stories about autonomous agents coordinating, bypassing constraints and acting beyond their assigned task? Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer examine the reported OpenAI and Hugging Face incident as a systems problem. They discuss why persistent agents, access to tools and weak control boundaries can create surprising outcomes without requiring mysticism about AI. The conversation also confronts the strategic problem behind safety: frontier labs and governments face strong incentives to move quickly. The hosts argue for a more useful debate than either fear marketing or casual dismissal, one focused on verifiable controls, independent scrutiny and practical incident preparedness. -- Links and References METR's independent investigation of the OpenAI / Hugging Face incidentOpenAI's Black Hat presentation on the incidentReporting on the Irregular sandbox incidentsReporting on the German wiki breakoutExploitGym benchmark paperBeyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit bvc.fm, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn⁠⁠. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.

    #S2.16 The AI Apocalypse Debate: What the Hugging Face Incident Actually Changed

  4. Sep 17

    #S2.15 From AI Code to Customer Value - Olaf Molenveld (CircleCI)

    What changes when software can be generated faster than organisations can validate it? Olaf Molenveld from CircleCI argues that the answer is not to relax quality practices. It is to extend the feedback loop beyond deployment. Release small, observe real use and make expansion or rollback decisions from a shared view of customer value, cost and technical health. We discuss shift-right guardrails, canary releases and the organisational work behind them. Product metrics, FinOps and SRE signals cannot remain separate dashboards if agents are to operate a meaningful part of the SDLC. Humans still decide what success means, define the boundaries and step in where the evidence is weak or the stakes are high. Olaf also shares a useful reality check: an AI-generated repository-archiving script looked convincing but invented a GitHub CLI command. His counterexample is equally instructive: an agent helped build a working sampler utility in an unfamiliar technical domain. The lesson is neither hype nor rejection. It is deliberate trust, backed by guardrails. -- Links and ReferencesCircleCIFinOps FoundationArgo RolloutsKubernetesTerraform Beyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit www.bvc.fm, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn⁠⁠. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.

    #S2.15 From AI Code to Customer Value - Olaf Molenveld (CircleCI)

  5. Sep 10

    #S2.14 From Tinkering to Agentic Product Systems - Markus Andrezak (überproduct)

    Markus Andrezak returns to Beyond Vibe Coding to explain what changed after the first wave of AI tinkering. His answer is not a new prompt recipe. It is a practical move from chat windows to repeatable agentic systems: static context, selected live information, clear outcomes and routines that produce useful artifacts. For product leaders, the conversation lands on a harder question. If a PRD or strategy contains assumptions, can it show the interviews, quotes and patterns that support them? Markus argues that agents can help make product reasoning traceable. That does not remove human responsibility. It makes the final judgement easier to challenge with evidence. The episode also covers stakeholder mapping, synthetic research, the right level of interaction with agentic systems, local-model realism and why deterministic guardrails are becoming an essential part of reliable AI work. -- Links and References "Stories Connecting Dots" Podcast Amara’s Law Beyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit www.bvc.fm, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn⁠⁠. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.

    #S2.14 From Tinkering to Agentic Product Systems - Markus Andrezak (überproduct)

  6. Sep 3

    #S2.13 The CISO’s Playbook for Moving Fast Without Losing Control - Mark Strande (miro)

    What does secure AI adoption look like when your engineering teams are expected to experiment at the frontier? Mark Strande, CISO at Miro, joins Beyond Vibe Coding to explain why the answer is not a single policy or a single access-control layer. It is a layered security model that combines foundations, agentic principles, hardened integration points, pipeline controls and fast detection. Mark also challenges the way companies think about agentic work. Reliable, repeatable tasks need clear skills, tests and constraints, not just a more elaborate harness. As agents gain access to systems and data, traditional human-style roles create dangerous combinations of permissions. The next generation of security architecture must make agent identities more precise and segregation of duties more automatic. The conversation closes with a pragmatic lesson for technology and security leaders: aim for excellence, but do not postpone meaningful protection while pursuing a perfect design. Institutional knowledge, reactive security systems and the ability to learn faster than the threat landscape will shape the winners. -- Links and ReferencesNIST AI Risk Management Framework Beyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit www.bvc.fm, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn⁠⁠. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.

    #S2.13 The CISO’s Playbook for Moving Fast Without Losing Control - Mark Strande (miro)

  7. Aug 27

    #S2.12 Stop Predicting the End of Software Engineers - Raz Schweiger-Shuty (auxmoney)

    How should engineering leaders respond when AI progress feels both faster than expected and impossible to predict? Raz Shuty, Group CTO at auxmoney, joins Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer to unpack Amara's Law in the context of AI. Their conclusion is neither complacent nor apocalyptic: the role of the engineer is changing, while the need for people who can reason about systems, specifications, and risk remains. Raz explains how a regulated fintech can make room for tool choice without sacrificing safety. The conversation covers secure enterprise AI access, education, rigorous CI/CD and review practices, and the difference between a rapid POC and a product that belongs in production. It also explores why AI can increase an organisation's capacity to pursue ideas rather than simply shrink teams. The episode closes on a more human implication. If AI makes building more accessible, leaders need to help teams adapt, without scaring new engineers away from the profession just as its responsibilities become more consequential. -- Links and References: Roy Amara & Amara's Lawauxmoney Beyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit www.bvc.fm, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn⁠⁠. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.

    #S2.12 Stop Predicting the End of Software Engineers - Raz Schweiger-Shuty (auxmoney)

  8. Aug 13

    #S2.10 When Coding Agents Ship at Machine Speed, AppSec Has to Move Into the Loop - Jan Brennenstuhl

    In this episode of Beyond Vibe Coding, Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer talk with Jan Brennenstuhl about application security in the age of agentic engineering. Jan explains how his own workflow already depends on long-running local agents, why the surrounding harness matters more than the frontier model, and why spec-driven approaches can be useful when agents make greenfield projects grow very quickly. The main conversation focuses on a structural shift in AppSec. Jan argues that traditional security gates, delayed scanner feedback, and ticket-based remediation cannot keep up with machine-speed code generation. Security has to move into the agent loop, into platform defaults and into standardized engineering infrastructure so that agents replicate secure patterns instead of every local workaround and architectural exception. The episode closes with a prediction: verification of intent becomes the premium engineering capability. As implementation gets cheaper, the valuable work shifts toward understanding what should be built, proving that it was built correctly, and designing engineering systems that can safely absorb autonomous change. -- Links and References Jan Brennenstuhl: https://www.janbrennenstuhl.eu/AppSec in the Age of Agentic Engineering: https://www.janbrennenstuhl.eu/appsec-agentic-engineering/Shift Down: Why Agentic Engineering Demands Platform-Level Security: https://www.janbrennenstuhl.eu/shift-down-appsec/Hugging Face Security Incident Disclosure, July 2026: https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026OpenAI and Hugging Face Security Incident Statement: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: https://agntconmcpconeu26.sched.com/ Beyond Vibe Coding Podcast is a project by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer, partnering with Impala Search. The content is created by us and our guests. Join the discussion on LinkedIn or visit www.bvc.fm, where we publish all episodes. For questions and inquiries, feel free to contact us via LinkedIn⁠⁠. Thank you for your time and see you in the next episode.

    #S2.10 When Coding Agents Ship at Machine Speed, AppSec Has to Move Into the Loop - Jan Brennenstuhl
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Beyond Vibe Coding is a weekly podcast for senior engineering leaders navigating the impact of AI on how software gets built. Hosted by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer in partnership with Impala Search, each episode brings together the leaders shaping the next era of engineering - from how teams are adopting AI, to what changes for product and architecture, to what stays unchanged when the tools shift underneath us. New episodes weekly.

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    HMZE × Impala Search
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    2026
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