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Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
This podcast is for aspiring entrepreneurs and technologists as well as those that want to become a designer and implementors of great software solutions. That includes solving problems through technology. We look at the whole skill set that makes a great developer. This includes tech skills, business and entrepreneurial skills, and life-hacking, so you have the time to get the job done while still enjoying life.
Episodes
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Beyond Vibe Coding: Why Developers Must Become AI Team Leaders
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing what it means to be a software developer. Writing code is becoming easier, AI agents can complete increasingly…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
How to Stand Out as a Developer in the Age of AI: Prove Your Value Beyond the Code
Artificial intelligence has changed the way developers write code, search for jobs, and present their professional experience. Resumes can be generated in…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Use the Right AI for the Job: Kevin Riedl on Local Models, AI Routing, and Smarter Development
AI is an essential tool for many developers, but using it well takes more than picking the most powerful model. As adoption grows, developers and businesses…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI-Native Development Without the Hype: Kevin Riedl on Building Better Software With AI
Companies are racing to adopt AI. Developers are experimenting with increasingly powerful coding agents. Businesses want projects delivered faster. But faster…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Build Less, Validate More: Alane Boyd on Smarter AI Development
Smarter AI development is not about using the most advanced tool or building the most complicated solution. As AI makes software development faster and more…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Is Not the Problem: Alane Boyd on Building an AI-Ready Organization
Building an AI-ready organization requires more than giving employees access to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or another AI platform. Without training, standards…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Hard-Earned Business Lessons: Glenn Poulos on Selling, Scaling, and Knowing When to Change
Success stories often sound much cleaner after the fact. Someone starts a company, grows it, sells it, and moves on to the next opportunity. What usually gets…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Build a Business Beyond the Code: Glenn Poulos on Buying, Building, and Using AI
Building a career beyond the code does not necessarily mean leaving technology behind. Sometimes it means learning how to take technical knowledge and apply it…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Developer Burnout and Work-Life Balance: Stop Bringing the Problem Home
Developer work-life balance is often treated as a productivity problem. We look for better schedules, better tools, fewer meetings, or another technique for…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Career Reinvention for Developers: Gaylen A. Wilson on Rebuilding Beyond the Code
Career reinvention for developers is usually discussed in terms of learning a new language, moving into leadership, adapting to AI, or finding a new job. Our…
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AI Communication Skills: Salvatore Manzi on Staying Human in an AI-Driven Workplace
AI communication skills are becoming increasingly important as developers and leaders rely on artificial intelligence to summarize meetings, draft emails…
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Leadership Communication: Salvatore Manzi on Better Technical Teams
Leadership communication becomes increasingly important as developers move beyond writing code and begin leading people, projects, and technical decisions…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Software Delivery Systems: Fix the Process Before Adding More AI
AI can produce code faster, automate repetitive work, analyze enormous amounts of information, and move development tickets at a pace that would have seemed…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Developer Systems Thinking: Becoming the Glue Between Strategy and Execution
Software development careers have traditionally been measured by technical ability: the languages you know, the systems you can architect, the bugs you can…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Season 29: Build a Career Beyond the Code
Software development is changing quickly. AI can generate code, build prototypes, test ideas, and turn concepts into working software faster than most of us…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Is Changing Software Development: Laura Chattington on Why Quality and Business Value Matter More
AI is changing software development faster than most organizations can adjust their processes around it. Developers can generate code, tests, documentation…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Stop Chasing the AI Ball: Laura Chattington on Turning AI Into Business Value
AI has become almost impossible for businesses to ignore. Every week brings another model, another tool, another promise of automation, and another story about…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Value Creation: Build Systems Around What Actually Moves the Business
AI value creation is not the same as doing more work with AI. That distinction is becoming increasingly important as AI compresses the time required to build…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Founder Knowledge Transfer: Turning Founder Expertise Into a Business That Can Scale
Founder knowledge transfer becomes critical when a business reaches the point where effort and intuition can no longer carry it forward. Early-stage companies…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Governance and Guardrails: Don't Automate the Chaos
In part one of our conversation with John Godlove and Piyush Agarwal, co-founders of Fusion Hive, we talked about starting with the workflow instead of the AI…
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AI Workflow Automation: Start With the Problem, Not the AI
AI is everywhere right now. Businesses are being told they need to adopt it, developers are being asked to build with it, and almost every software product…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Building Trust in the AI Era | Amit Zandberg
What happens when the technology helping you build your business also threatens the way customers discover it? That question is becoming increasingly important…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Can AI Help You Trust Online Course Reviews? | Amit Zandberg
Online education has never been easier to access. You can learn almost anything through YouTube, Udemy, online communities, independent creators, coaches, and…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
The Golden Rule Is Bad Management Advice (And What Great Leaders Do Instead)
Most of us grew up hearing the same lesson: treat others the way you want to be treated. It's the Golden Rule, and it's one of the first lessons we learn about…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Employee Incentives That Actually Work: Why Culture Beats Pay Raises Every Time
For years, businesses have relied on a simple formula to motivate employees: pay them more. Need better performance? Offer a bonus. Need to improve retention?…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Virtual Assistant Systems: How to Build a Delegation Process That Actually Scales
Hiring help doesn't automatically solve your workload. Many entrepreneurs believe bringing on a virtual assistant instantly creates more free time, but in…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Delegation for Entrepreneurs: Why Letting Go Is the First Step to Real Business Growth
One of the hardest transitions every founder faces is delegation. Building a business often starts with doing everything yourself—sales, customer support…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Implementation Guardrails: How to Scale AI Without Scaling Your Mistakes
Artificial intelligence has dramatically reduced the time it takes to write code, generate documentation, and launch new applications. What once required weeks…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Capital Strategy: Why Founders Need More Than Funding in the Age of AI
For decades, startup success followed a familiar path: build a prototype, raise venture capital, hire a team, develop a product, and hope to reach market…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Why AI Readiness Matters More Than AI Adoption
Artificial intelligence has become the centerpiece of countless business conversations. Every week brings another announcement promising faster development…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Governance Implementation: Turning AI Policies into Everyday Practice
Having an AI policy is a great first step, but successful AI Governance Implementation goes much further. Governance isn't about creating documents that sit on…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Governance Framework: Why Guardrails Help AI Move Faster
Artificial intelligence is advancing at an incredible pace, but without an AI Governance Framework, organizations risk creating systems that are difficult to…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Trust Chain Verification: A System for Proving Humanity Online
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating content, a new problem emerges: proving that a participant is human without requiring…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Human Trust Networks: Building Authentic Online Communities in an AI World
As AI-generated content continues to flood social platforms, the challenge is no longer creating information—it's determining whether the person behind it is…
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AI-Assisted Rust: Building Reliable Software Through Compilers, Testing, and Modern Tooling
Part two of the discussion with Jim Hodapp and Bob Belderbos focused on practical software development. Topics included testing, tooling, libraries, developer…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Rust Developer Mindset: Why Modern Engineers Are Looking Beyond Programming Languages
In this episode of Building Better Developers, Jim Hodapp and Bob Belderbos discuss why Rust continues to gain momentum among experienced developers. The…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Legal Risk Systems: Creating Business Processes That Protect Technology Startups
The most successful startups do not rely on luck. They build repeatable Legal Risk Systems that help prevent small mistakes from becoming expensive disasters…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Startup Legal Foundation: Building a Technology Business That Can Survive Success
Most technology entrepreneurs spend months refining code, building products, and solving technical challenges. Yet a strong Startup Legal Foundation is often…
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AI Team Systems: Building Agile Organizations That Scale Beyond Automation
As AI becomes embedded in software development workflows, many leaders assume the biggest changes will happen in coding. The reality may be very different. The…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Hero Culture Risks: Why AI Is Exposing the Cracks in Software Delivery
The conversation around AI often focuses on speed, automation, and productivity. Yet one of the most important lessons emerging from modern software…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Enterprise AI Reality: What Software Teams Are Learning Beyond the Hype
The conversation around artificial intelligence often creates the impression that software development has already been transformed beyond recognition. Social…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Developer Confidence Growth: Why Great Engineers Never Stop Learning
The journey of Developer Confidence Growth rarely follows a straight line. Most developers begin their careers believing technical knowledge alone determines…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
1,000 Episodes Later: What Building Better Developers Has Taught Us
Reaching 1,000 podcast episodes is one of those milestones that feels impossible when you're recording episode one. Yet here we are — one thousand…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Deployment Ownership: Why Infrastructure Skills Matter More Than Ever
As AI becomes increasingly capable of generating code, many developers are asking the wrong question. Instead of asking whether AI will replace developers, a…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Reality Gap: The Difference Between AI Demos and Production Systems
The AI Reality Gap is becoming one of the most important concepts for developers, founders, and business leaders to understand. Every day, social media is…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Leadership Upgrade: The Weekly Challenge Every Tech Team Should Try
Many technology organizations reward heroes. The person who fixes production at midnight. The developer who rescues a failing release. The manager who…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Human Agency Scale: A Practical Framework for AI Decision Making
One of the biggest mistakes organizations make with AI is assuming that more automation automatically creates better outcomes. Daria Rudnik introduced a…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Facilitative Leadership: Why Modern Teams Need Guides Instead of Heroes
The traditional image of leadership is built around the hero. When problems emerge, the leader steps in. If uncertainty appears, the leader provides answers…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
AI Reality Gaps: What AI Is Revealing About Modern Software Organizations
The conversation around AI often focuses on what the technology can do. But the more important discussion may be what AI is exposing. Across organizations, AI…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Forward Momentum Systems for Developers Navigating AI and Growth
The idea of Forward Momentum Systems became the defining theme of Season 27 of Building Better Developers. What started as a season about getting unstuck…
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AI Workflow Architecture: Building Smarter Systems Instead of Bigger Tech Stacks
Most AI conversations focus on models. The better conversation focuses on systems. In this episode, we continue our interview with Matt Levenhagen, exploring a…
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Private AI Systems: Why Smart Developers Build for Themselves First
The rise of Private AI Systems has created a rush of developers trying to bolt AI onto everything they touch. But the developers who are actually creating…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Simplifying Software Delivery Before AI Amplifies Your Chaos
The weekly challenge episode reinforced one of the strongest ideas from the Alex Polyakov conversation: AI will not fix broken engineering operations. If…
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Time Left Estimation: The Execution Model Modern Teams Need
Time left estimation may be one of the simplest ideas in software delivery, but it directly challenges decades of traditional Agile estimation practices…
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Software Delivery Clarity: Why Visibility Beats More Process
Software delivery clarity has become one of the most important competitive advantages for engineering organizations. Teams are shipping faster, AI-assisted…
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Rapid Experimentation Challenge: Build, Test, and Learn Faster with AI
The rapid experimentation challenge is simple in concept—but difficult in execution: stop overthinking, start building, and learn faster than your assumptions…
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Iterative Development Systems: How High-Performing Teams Build Faster with Less Risk
Iterative development systems are no longer optional—they are the backbone of modern software teams that need to move quickly without breaking everything. In…
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Software Communication Gaps: The Hidden Foundation Problem Slowing Your Team
Software communication gaps are the invisible force behind most failed or delayed software projects—and they often start long before a single line of code is…
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AI Data Sovereignty: Why Owning Data Means Owning the Future
AI data sovereignty is quickly becoming one of the most critical issues in global technology—and one of the least understood. At its core, it asks a simple…
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AI Infrastructure Gap: Why AI Progress Starts With What You Can't See
The AI infrastructure gap is one of the most misunderstood barriers to real innovation. While the global conversation celebrates breakthroughs in generative…