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.
July 30, 2026
Stefan Lange-Hegermann joins Beyond Vibe Coding to explain how sipgate thinks about AI sovereignty from the inside of a real product and engineering organization. The episode starts with sipgate’s AI telephony work: speech-to-text, LLMs, text-to-speech, anonymized customer data, fine-tuned call-analysis...
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Benjamin Hoskins joins Beyond Vibe Coding to discuss what agentic engineering looks like when it is grounded in serious engineering practice rather than prompt-driven improvisation. His personal workflow combines a custom Card Planner, MCP, Allium, big batches of red unit and end-to-end tests, boundary value analysis, hexagonal architecture, IntelliJ-based refactoring,...
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Stefan Schubert-Peters returns to Beyond Vibe Coding to discuss a topic many engineering organizations are only beginning to name: AI adoption and AI identity change are not the same thing. At felmo, a difficult retro around AI, job security and career anxiety made him realize that even experienced engineers who...
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Italo Vietro joins Beyond Vibe Coding to describe how Parloa, a company building AI agents for enterprise customer experience, uses AI internally to change the way engineering works. The episode centers on Parloa’s internal “kitchen”: a shared harness of skills, agents and workflows that helps engineers with implementation, SRE, security,...
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Uwe Franke joins Beyond Vibe Coding to unpack a very concrete version of the solopreneur thesis. After founding and running ByteWorx for decades, he now operates several products and client projects in an agentic setup where his “team” is made of color-coded terminal sessions, Claude-heavy workflows, GitHub tickets, semantic anchors,...
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This episode examines AI transformation from the people and HR side of a technology organization. Franzi describes how AI changed her own work as a People Partner Lead at Miro: not by adding a chatbot to the side, but by creating scheduled workflows, briefs, reflections, and decision-support systems that help...
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The Fable 5 incident turned an abstract AI risk into something much more concrete: frontier-model access can disappear quickly, and global teams cannot treat hosted AI infrastructure as politically or operationally neutral. Sebastian and Andre unpack the reported export-control shock, the confusing jailbreak explanation, and the immediate consequence for companies...
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