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.
September 17, 2026
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Jürgen Helmers joins Beyond Vibe Coding to explain how Andercore is moving from individual AI usage toward loop and harness engineering across a distributed engineering organization. The conversation gets very concrete: Claude-based workflows, markdown skills, Jira and wiki connectors, engineering vision files, review agents, issue files, blocker/major gates, circuit breakers,...
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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...
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Pedro Gil Carvalho, VP Engineering at Thermondo, joins Sebastian and Andre to discuss how a company with real-world operational constraints approaches agentic engineering. The episode starts with Pedro’s own workflow: Claude Code acts as a chief of staff across Slack, Confluence, email, research, and codebase exploration, while his personal agent...
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