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The Aboard Podcast

Software in the Age of AI

Join Rich Ziade, Paul Ford, and their guests as they discuss how AI is changing software development, business strategy—and everything else.

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Waiting for the DOGE Barbarians

Elon Musk’s DOGE team strategy seems to be “destroy without oversight, replace with AI.” Could this actually work?

February 11, 2025 - 31 min 50 sec
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AI as an Accelerant for Good

How is AI transforming the social sector? A conversation with Perry Hewitt, Chief Marketing and Product Officer for Data.org.

February 4, 2025 - 35 min 15 sec
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Don’t Freak About DeepSeek

Chinese LLM company DeepSeek has been wreaking havoc on the stock prices of the American tech sector. What exactly is going on?

January 28, 2025 - 25 min 43 sec
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Brains Are Better Than Butlers

AI tools are often positioned as agents, assistants, or butlers—but their potential is so much greater than that.

January 21, 2025 - 25 min 57 sec
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Not Quite Finishing Apps

Can you actually build an app with AI right now? Paul reports back from a holiday break where he attempted to do just that.

January 14, 2025 - 22 min 15 sec
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