The Qualified Answer
The Qualified Answer dissects the real decisions senior technology leaders make - what was chosen, what was traded away, and what they wish they'd known.
Because every honest expert answer comes with conditions. This podcast unpacks them.
Episodes
9 episodes
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Averages Lie, AI Washes, the IDE Loses Its Crown
You measure your systems with averages, your board deck is full of "AI," and you barely open your IDE anymore. Three things worth a second look — because each one is a signal, and the signal matters more than the noise.In this solo episo...
It's the Developer's Skill With AI, Not the AI
For most of three decades, "good code" had a definition. Then ChatGPT launched, and within months the canonical principles of software engineering — KISS, DRY, YAGNI, the lot — collapsed in value almost overnight.Simon Raik-Allen, CTO at...
Technology Is Made of People
You can run a perfect dashboard and still be making bad calls. The numbers say everything's fine - but you haven't spoken to anyone close to the work in weeks.In this solo episode, Simon unpacks the three people-shaped foundations of goo...
Going Fast as a Company without Gatekeepers
What if the whole business went fast together?You've spent two years getting product and engineering shipping multiple times a day. Releases are fast and of high quality. Then you notice the company isn't actually moving any faster.<...
Bill Shock and the Feedback Loop I Forgot
You wired up a service, did the mental arithmetic, moved on. Then the bill arrived and it wasn't $20, $50, or even $100. It was thousands.In this solo episode, Simon Elisha walks through his own recent bill shock and what it forced him t...
The Counterfactual: Why Repairing Beat Rewriting and Outsourcing
Guest: David Broeren ...
Welcome to The Qualified Answer: Surviving Tech Bubbles & The Gorilla Game
Imagine spending millions of dollars and months of preparation on a revolutionary e-commerce platform, only to launch to absolute crickets. In the inaugural episode of The Qualified Answer, host Simon Elisha takes us back to the dot-co...
Trailer: Every Honest Answer Comes With a But
Every honest answer in technology comes with conditions.The Qualified Answer is a decisions podcast for senior technology leaders - the ones who own the call, and the ones who execute it.Each episode is either a decision case...