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Tech Talk features Exception Handlers, the Forum’s podcast hosted by Alex and Bill. Each episode is a conversation with technology leaders about what is actually working in engineering, product and AI: 23 episodes since August 2025.

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Hiring in the Age of AI

Episode 23With Jennifer Wadella

Alex and Bill interview Jennifer Wadella, Engineering Manager at Chromatic, about how AI broke the hiring process. From thousands of near-identical resumes to fake candidates showing up for interviews, they explore what hiring managers and job-seeking engineers have to do to get past the AI gatekeepers.

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Newest first, from episode 22 back to the first conversation in August 2025.

  1. Living in Full AI Immersion

    Episode 22 · With Michael Coletta ·

  2. Software Factories

    Episode 21 ·

  3. Control Planes, Sub-Agents, and Local AI Hardware

    Episode 20 · With Jack Britton ·

  4. When Software Engineers Stop Writing Code

    Episode 19 · With David Boskovic ·

  5. Why Bigger Companies Get Less from AI

    Episode 18 · With Bhavini Soneji ·

  6. 25th Anniversary of the LA CTO Forum

    Episode 17 · With Oded Noy and Tony Karrer ·

  8. Rethinking Engineering Best Practices in the Age of AI

    Episode 15 · With Josh Nisenson ·

  9. AI-enabled Solopreneurship

    Episode 14 · With Dave Gullo ·

  10. Where Product Ends and Engineering Begins

    Episode 13 · With David Subar ·

  11. Can Non-Engineers Build Real Apps with AI?

    Episode 12 · With Amit Masoun ·

  12. CTO careers in the Age of AI

    Episode 11 · With Dan Grosh ·

  13. AI Security

    Episode 10 · With Kuba Fietiewicz and Alex Belotsky ·

  14. Agents and the Future of AI Systems

    Episode 9 · With Jared Zoneraich ·

  15. The New Economics of Software Developers

    Episode 8 · With Erick Herring ·

  16. AI Metrics

    Episode 7 ·

  17. The New Economics of Code

    Episode 6 ·

  18. Product Operations

    Episode 5 · With Denise Tilles ·

  19. The Big AI Survey

    Episode 4 ·

  20. Impact of AI on Product Development

    Episode 3 ·

  21. How to Deliver Bad News and Get Away With It

    Episode 2 · With Mahesh Guruswamy ·

  22. Software Development in the AI era

    Episode 1 ·

From the archive

Articles from the Forum’s earlier Tech Talk posts, 2021–2022, written up from member sessions.