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Pulse Episode 14: From CEO to CTO and a horror story with Arnout Van de Meulebroucke

Andreas interviews Arnout Van de Meulebroucke, CTO and founder of Phished. Phished automates cybersecurity training beyond phishing simulations with a 98.9% customer satisfaction rate. In the podcast, Arnout discusses his transition from CEO to CTO and shares a gripping company story.

How AI will replace pair programming

AI tools like GitHub CoPilot and ChatGPT enhance pair programming by catching mistakes and aiding debugging. They match human refactoring but lag in mentoring and knowledge transfer. Nevertheless, AI coding assistants are advancing, poised to replace human pairs, enhancing coding efficiency.

On migrations and manipulations

Sometimes we make mistakes. And sometimes we make mistakes in production. Data manipulations help you correct these mistakes without directly touching your production environment.

Why you don't need estimates

How should you estimate your work? Are estimations needed when developing software? What is the value of estimations? What is an alternative to estimating work?

How a CTO builds a team

There are many factors involved in building a thriving team. This is what a CTO must consider when hiring expert teams to build software.

Why you should invest in good engineers from the start

Investing in senior engineers is crucial for startups. They bring speed, efficiency, and quality to development, boost team morale, and ensure long-term profitability. Hire senior professionals from the start for success, here is why.

Why retrospectives are essential

Teams of all experience levels can improve their way of working, but only if they take a moment to retrospect.

Why is it good to deploy frequently

Do you deploy every day? Your team probably should. Here's why.

Why it’s worth spending time on writing out tickets

Have a small team that likes to move fast and break things? You are writing tickets. Right?

Hiring on speed: a hypergrowth experience

When it is time to scale up an engineering team, hiring quickly becomes a headache. Hypergrowth leads to senior engineers that don’t spend any

It’s here: Free Range Management, the book

Create space so your team can thrive. You must create space for knowledge workers to do their best work. But how do you do that?

Don’t let QA be a bottleneck

Not every company can have a “move fast and break things” attitude. In fact, even Zuckerberg, who installed this as a mantra at Facebook in

On Technical debt - What is it, how is it created, what types of technical debt are there, how to avoid tech debt, and how to fix it?

What is technical debt? How can you fix technical debt and what is the best approach to avoid technical debt?

How to assist your product marketing team as a software engineer

Software engineering and marketing are often considered to be on completely opposite ends of the spectrum but when put together they can become a powerful

​​Most common challenges faced by startups in 2024

It’s pretty evident that a startup in 2024 faces unique challenges that just haven’t existed in other years. Every entrepreneur knows that they

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