How CTOs Use AI

About

Every engineering org is being told to adopt AI. Almost none of the public conversation about it comes from the people actually responsible for making that call. This show exists to fix that.

Each episode is an unscripted conversation with a CTO, VP of Engineering, or founder at a growth-stage SaaS company — roughly $10–200M in ARR, past the earliest scrappy days but still small enough that every decision matters. We talk about what AI adoption actually looks like inside their engineering team: what tools they rolled out, what got adopted and what got quietly abandoned, how it changed (or didn't change) velocity and code quality, and what they'd do differently.

What makes this different from most AI content is simple: we spend as much time on what isn't working as what is. No vendor talking points, no “10x your team overnight” claims. Just practitioners describing what actually happened when they tried something — including the failed pilots, the tools that got shelved, and the messy middle most companies are currently living in.

If you lead an engineering team and are trying to figure out what's real versus what's hype, this show is for you.

Host

Neel Jain

Neel Jain

I started this show because most AI content is fluff dressed up as insight. I wanted a place where engineering leaders talk plainly about what AI can actually do for their teams — not what a keynote promises it can do.