Bits and Bolts With Paulina

Bits & Bolts with Paulina dives into the nuts and bolts of cloud, DevOps, and the future of technology. Each episode brings candid conversations with industry leaders, uncovering how they build trust in data, adopt AI responsibly, and design platforms that truly scale. Whether you are an engineer, product leader, or tech enthusiast, you will find practical insights and bold ideas to help you navigate today’s fast-moving digital world!

Bits and Bolts With Paulina is a technology podcast hosted by Paulina Dubas, with 19 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Paulina Dubas hosts Bits and Bolts With Paulina, a technology show with 19 episodes published.

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  AI Agents Could Be Safer Than Humans in Network Infrastructure | John Capobianco

  Sep 27, 202649 min

  In this episode of Bits & Bolts with Paulina, John Capobianco (AI and network automation expert) explores how AI agents are transforming network engineering and infrastructure automation. He explains why AI agents could be safer than humans, how agentic infrastructure is changing IT operations, the rise of MCP and autonomous agents, and why 64% of network operations work could potentially be automated.

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  This founder sold his restaurant to build the Spotify for food | David Leibner

  Sep 13, 202659 min

  What does a 4.7-star rating actually mean? Nothing, says David Leibner, founder of Stupid Good AI. In this episode, David and Paulina break down why star ratings are broken, how his platform built an AI foodie concierge that learns users at an atomic level, the internal AI agent team ("Team 11") that rebuilt his recommendation engine, and why he believes ChatGPT and Gemini will eventually become his paying customers instead of his competitors.

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  Ex CTO & Founder: AI Bubble Could Burst in 18 Months and Managing Coding Agents! | Paulo André

  Aug 30, 202653 min

  Fractional CTO Paulo André joins Paulina to make the case that we're in an AI bubble — and that coding was never the real bottleneck in software delivery. They dig into why AI is making engineering teams busier without making businesses faster, the "rookie mistake" Paulo made by over-building his own AI-powered cycling app, and why token costs, guardrails, and the 80/20 principle matter more than ever in the coding agent era.

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  Ex-Bitpanda CPTO on the FinTech growth trap that kills startups

  Aug 2, 202650 min

  Victor Tuson Palau, 3x unicorn CTO and former CPTO at Bitpanda, joins Paulina to explain why nearly every successful startup runs on a monolith, why shipping more features doesn't always mean more revenue, and why it took a regulator to force financial companies to guarantee their systems actually work. They also dig into why scaling a fintech is a different beast entirely from scaling a typical SaaS company, from fragmented payment rails across Europe to the chaos of proving your address in different countries.

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  Google's DORA Lead on AI : I wouldn't trust AI that much

  Jul 11, 202650 min

  Google's DORA team just found something counterintuitive: 90% of developers now use AI daily, and most feel more productive. But at the team level, deployment instability is increasing. In this episode, Nathen Harvey, Head of DORA at Google Cloud, joins Paulina to unpack why AI amplifies both the best and worst parts of your engineering systems. They cover the hidden "verification tax" of AI-generated code, why only 4% of developers say they trust AI's output "a great deal," the J-curve every team hits before AI adoption actually pays off, and why cutting junior engineers today could mean no senior engineers in ten years.

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