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| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 91 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | ManagementBusinessTechnology | |||

Loving a technology and trusting it are two very different things — and Tamara Laine would know. She's the founder of MPWR, where her team builds policy-bound, audit-ready AI for highly regulated financial-services work. She joins James Carman to get... more
Your AI costs keep climbing, and the power bill climbs with them. The usual answer is just "buy more compute." But what if the real ceiling is the 80-year-old design inside every chip? Steve Brunker, a 30-year enterprise CIO now CEO of Brain CA Techn... more
Your AI bill went up this year, so why does it feel like you're paying to ask the same question twice? Ilan Man's fix: stop using AI everywhere and start using it on purpose. The founder of Paradox Machines and former data lead at Squarespace joins J... more
Who's actually reviewing the open source code your business runs on? Rich Bowen — Apache Software Foundation member since the late '90s, six terms on its board, now an open source strategist at AWS — tells host James Carman that maintainers are drown... more
Nearly every company is "using AI" now — but for most, it still isn't showing up in the P&L, and boards have noticed. Todd James says that gap is a leadership problem, not a technology one. The former Chief Data & Technology Officer at 84.51° and hea... more
When an AI agent starts writing and shipping code inside your platform, who is it — and what is it allowed to do? Host James Carman sits down with Ajay Chankramath — CTO Platform Engineering Consulting, and former head of platform engineering at Thou... more
Your company just gave everyone a Claude or ChatGPT seat — so why isn't the ROI showing up? Host James Carman and YNDR founder Chris Thomas break down why handing out AI licenses isn't a strategy, why tokenmaxxing and prompt engineers won't deliver r... more
Cancel the SaaS contract and vibe code it yourself? In this episode, host James Carman talks with Kendra Ramirez, CEO of KR Digital and a global Claude ambassador who's been building bots since 2018, about where AI actually earns its keep for busines... more
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The show explores modern software development, AI-enabled platforms, and the evolving role of engineering leaders in shaping technology strategy. Episodes frequently center on platform engineering, governance of AI-driven workflows, secure deployment of frontier models, and the intersection of business value with engineering decisions. Guests range from AI/ML practitioners and cloud-native builders to security and data-protection experts, product and transformation leaders, and engineers shaping large-scale infrastructures. A standout characteristic is its practical, ROI-focused lens—often pairing concrete frameworks (e.g., platform value metrics, governance playbooks) with backstage anecdotes from high-velocity tech environments. This comb... more
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Recent guests on The Forward Slash Podcast include:
1. Steve Brunker
2. Ilan Man
3. Rich Bowen
4. Todd James
5. Ajay Chankramath
6. Chris Thomas
7. Kendra Ramirez
8. William Morgan
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