Tech Debt Burndown Podcast

S03E08 Georg Schleiermacher techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... @cpswan.net and @nickselby.com speak with Georg Schleiermacher, former CTO of Hyperloop Spain and veteran of MTU Aero Engines, to explore technical debt in the aviation sector.

S03E07 Overambitious AI Intern techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... @cpswan.net and @nickselby.com explore the behavioural, cultural, and financial implications of deploying AI coding assistants, framing their erratic behaviour as that of an “overeager intern” that prioritizes speed over rigour.

S03E06 AI Tech Debt techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... @nickselby.com and @cpswan.net talk about the security, data privacy, and operational challenges of enterprise AI adoption, highlighting how executive pressure driven by “Fortune front page FOMO” often leads to hasty deployments.

S03E05 Cloud vs on Premises techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... @cpswan.net and @nickselby.com dive into the widespread misunderstandings and economic realities of choosing between cloud and on-premises infrastructure...

S03E04 Sarah Wells techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... @sarahjwells.bsky.social joins @nickselby.com and @cpswan.net to talk about the lessons learned from her decade at the Financial Times, and their journey to implementing microservices...

S03E03 Matthew Skelton techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... Team Topologies co-author @matthewskelton.com joins @cpswan.net and @nickselby.com to discuss the relationship between tech debt and cognitive load. Matthew explains that every organization has a finite “cognitive load budget,”...

S03E02 AI Coding Assistants techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... @cpswan.net and @nickselby.com chat about how AI Coding Assistants have suddenly become very good, maybe even good enough to write ’load bearing’ code...

S03E01 Tech Debt as a Service (Welcome to the Slopocene) techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... @cpswan.net and @nickselby.com kick off the season with a discussion of what Chris has called Tech Debt as a Service: how we’ve entered the slopocene, and how we are working with our magical AIs...

Hello world... We're already 3 episodes in to season 3 of the Tech Debt Burndown podcast, and @cpswan.net has just got around to setting up an account here on Bluesky.