The Pluralsight Podcast

Cloud architect and Pluralsight author Andru Estes has seen this movie before: the AI gold rush is repeating cloud adoption's mistakes. He breaks down why being certified doesn't mean being qualified, where costs quietly spiral, the coming vibe coding cleanup, and the hands-on habits that keep your skills relevant.

What happens when you try to run a company with zero humans? Matt Kropp, Senior Partner and Chief AI Officer at BCG X, is finding out with Vessica Labs, where AI agents set the strategy, write the code, and run the operations. We dig into what the experiment has revealed, from bias hiding in enterprise AI systems to the BCG research behind "AI brain fry."

Every company wants to be "AI-first," but what does that actually signal to your customers and employees? In this episode, business school professor and C-suite advisor Bipasha "B.G." Ghosh makes the case that "AI-first" is the wrong North Star, and that a strong learning culture is what separates organizations that adopt AI well from those that stall.

When threats are AI-generated and never look the same twice, can the tools built to match known attacks even see them? Zack Korman — co-founder of AI-native security startup Embroidery and former CTO — argues that the answer is no, and that most of what's being sold to close that gap doesn't work the way the marketing claims.

Wayne Hoggett joins Josh Burkhead to talk about what changes when AI moves from a tool you reach for to something embedded in every part of how you work.

What does it mean to be irreplaceable on a cloud infrastructure team when AI can write your Terraform, parse your logs, and troubleshoot your architecture — all before your second cup of coffee? In this episode of The Pluralsight Podcast, Ned Bellavance argues that the answer isn't about the tools you know.