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, Germany's leading technology and executive search agency.
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.
November 5, 2026
What does AI transformation look like when the starting point is not a pilot but the future viability of the business? Thomas Wollermann of Merantix Momentum explains why AI strategy has become business strategy. The conversation moves from board-level questions...
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AI transformation is often presented as a tooling decision: choose a model, write policies and give people access. Bastian Buch makes a sharper case. The transformation is about how an organisation works when execution accelerates: who has context, who can decide, what an agent may do and how people review...
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Alex Ewerlöf joins Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer to challenge a popular claim: that coding is solved. Alex is not anti-AI. He works with agents, local and cloud models, and an engineering harness of his own. But he argues that generating code is only one part of software...
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In this episode we speak with Rodrigue Schäfer, SVP Tech Foundations at Delivery Hero, about what it actually takes to run agentic engineering at scale inside a large, decentralized group. Rodrigue walks through how Delivery Hero moved from ungoverned experimentation with Cursor, Windsurf, Devin, Claude and Gemini Code Assist to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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