Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation
Our mission is to cultivate AI literacy in the Greater Richmond Region through awareness, community engagement, education, and advocacy. In this podcast, we spotlight companies and individuals in the region who are pioneering the development and use of AI.
Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation
Latest Episodes
Ep 86 - Staying Competitive: Build A Resilient Engineering Career With AI
If you’re an engineer staring at AI code generation and wondering where you fit, the uncomfortable truth is also the freeing one: trying to “outproduce” AI on repetitive implementation is not a durable plan. We talk through a calmer, more usefu...
Ep 85 - Leverage Outruns Wisdom: Systems Leadership In The AI Era
AI is quietly rewriting the org chart, and it’s not because everyone suddenly works faster. The real shift is structural: teams are becoming blended systems of humans, AI agents, orchestration layers, evaluation pipelines, and continuous automa...
Ep 84 - The Philosophical Shift: As Intelligence Becomes Cheap, Evaluation Becomes Everything
AI can generate code, analysis, and recommendations faster than any team in history, but there’s a catch: verification doesn’t scale the same way. When intelligence becomes abundant, judgment becomes scarce, and that scarcity reshapes what “goo...
Ep 83 - Up the Stack: The Five Layers Of The Future Software Engineer
AI can write code faster than any team on earth, so why does it still feel like shipping software is hard? The uncomfortable answer is that speed is not the same as progress, and generation is not the same as judgment. We challenge the tired qu...
Ep 82 - A Devs Transformation: New Values Emerge As Code Becomes Cheap
The scariest part of AI in software is not that it writes code. It is that it changes what “being an engineer” even means. When generative AI can scaffold applications, spin up infrastructure configs, draft tests, refactor modules, and debug co...
