In this episode, I'm joined by Matt James, where we discuss AI isn't just helping you build NBPs anymore.

It's moving into production at 10x speed.

Matt is the former CTO of Billion Dollar Scale Up VGW from Perth,

who joined a CTO and employee number 22

and helped scale the business to over 1,000 employees

and more than a billion in revenue when he left.

Matt has seen firsthand how engineering is shifting from writing code

to orchestrating autonomous systems.

There still seems to be a last group of developers holding out that AI is merely an augmenting tool,

requiring them to still do the heavy lifting, rather than intelligent systems that should just be managed.

We break down what this means, why moving slowly right now is a real risk and how

this changes what's actually defensible in software. We also try and get practical how to upgrade

legacy systems, what modern technical team should look like and where the biggest opportunities

and threats are emerging. If you're building, backing or scaling anything in tech, this episode

is designed to help shift the thinking of many developers that AI is nice to help that a developer should do the core

coding, to developers purely managing intelligence systems that can build, test and deploy at scale,

because the real shift isn't faster coding, it's a complete redefinition of what it means to actually

be an engineer. So with that,

let's get into it.

Matt, so good to have you on. Thanks for coming on to spend some time.

Pleasure to be here, Don.

We met down in Margaret River where the always amazing Dan Javeski from Weemone brought us together

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