The Torchlane
podcast.

Conversations with people using AI in their actual day-to-day work: what they built, what broke, and how the job has changed. Engineers, product, design, marketing, sales, finance and operations, at startups and large companies.

Podcast format and hosts.

Conversation
About 45 minutes over video. Not a formal interview, and no prep needed.
Where
Published on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. First episodes are recording now.
Hosts
Jake and Zack from Torchlane.
Guests
People doing the work, not only founders and executives. Anything confidential stays out.

Podcast discussion topics.

  • The first thing you automated, and what it replaced
  • Agents that broke in production, and the fix
  • How code review, support and finance change when AI does the first draft
  • Evals, cost and the decisions a model shouldn’t make
  • Hiring and careers in forward deployed and applied AI roles
  • What you would tell your team to stop doing next quarter

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