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.
October 8, 2026
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,...
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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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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...
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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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