Code and Connor

CxC Ep39: What Business Leaders Need to Know About AI

This week on Code x Connor, Connor and Dorian unpack the growing disconnect between individual AI productivity and actual business performance, why agentic systems could

CxC Ep38: How AI Is Reshaping Higher Education - with Dr. Glen Lowry (Edufirm)

In this episode of Code x Connor, we’re joined by Dr. Glen Lowry of Edufirm to discuss the impact of AI on higher education, why universities are struggling to adapt at t

CxC Ep37: Is Open Source the Future of AI? - with Ahmad Osman & Michael Bradley (Osmantic)

This week on Code x Connor, we're joined by Ahmad Osman and Michael Bradley, co-founders of Osmantic, to discuss why open source AI is rapidly closing the gap on frontier

The Agent Loop Is a Recursive Tax

Most AI agents today run on the same pattern: give the model a goal, dump in a giant system prompt, let it loop through tool calls until it decides it's done. It's flexib

CxC Ep36: AI Industry Rundown - with Benjamin Rogojan & Anand Pant

This week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Codestrap Founding Partners Benjamin Rogojan and Anand Pant to break down the latest developments shaping the AI industry—from

CxC Ep35: How AI Is Transforming the Insurance Industry - with Sam Piecz (Corgi)

This week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Sam Piecz of Corgi to discuss how AI is reshaping the insurance industry, the emergence of new AI-driven risk categories, and

CxC Ep34: AI Industry Rundown - with Anand Pant & Przemysław Nowak

This week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Codestrap’s own Anand Pant and Przemysław Nowak to discuss the latest news around AI, from the increasingly unsustainable cost

CxC Ep33: AI Coding’s Productivity Paradox - with Andrew Boyagi (Atlassian)

This week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Andrew Boyagi of Atlassian to discuss why AI is accelerating software development without necessarily accelerating business ou

CxC Ep32: Private Equity’s AI Reality Check - with Lee McCabe (Claymore Partners)

This week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Lee McCabe of Claymore Partners to discuss the convergence of AI and private equity, why firms are struggling to create operat

CxC Ep31: DevEx Matters: Snowflake Gets It Right With Cortex Code - with Umesh Unnikrishnan (Snowflake)

This week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Umesh Unnikrishnan of Snowflake to discuss the evolution from vibe coding to agentic engineering, how AI is reshaping develope

Codestrap Collab: ForgeSight x SalesFoundation

Codestrap welcomes ForgeSight to the channel to discuss how AI-powered operational platforms are reshaping traditional SaaS and see a demo of CustomerForge, a jointly dev

CxC Ep30: Building AI Systems That Don’t Break the Business - with Brian Fornelli (Conagra)

This week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Brian Fornelli of Conagra Brands to discuss operationalizing AI in large enterprises, why companies are overcomplicating adopt

CxC Ep29: The Dilemma of AI Pricing - with Maciej Kraus (Movens Capital)

This week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Maciej Kraus, partner at Movens Capital and Stanford guest lecturer, to discuss current AI pricing models, their limitations,

CxC Ep28: AI & Data That Work at Enterprise Scale - with Jarek Sobanski (Swiss Re)

This week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Jarek Sobanski of Swiss Re to discuss managing complexity at scale, how Foundry enables a data-connected enterprise, and where

CxC Ep 27: AI in the News - with Dom Selvon & Tarek Nseir (Valiance)

This week on Code x Connor, we’re joined by Tarek Nseir and Dom Selvon of Valiance to discuss the latest in AI news, from the UK’s attempt to oust Palantir from the NHS t

Codestrap Roundtable: If Your Boss Incentivizes Token Burn, Get a New Boss

Codestrap’s Dorian Smiley, Benjamin Rogojan, and Przemyslaw Nowak discuss the key issues and considerations fueling the debate between tradcoding and tokenmaxxing. Be su

CxC Ep26: There’s no AI Strategy Without A Data Strategy

CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 26 features our friend Jeff Hollan, Former Head of Cortex AI Agents and Snowflake Intelligence. Jeff led the product strategy for Sn

CxC Ep25: Giving Technology A Truly Human Voice

CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 25 features our friend Jack Smith from ElevenLabs. Jack leads global channel partnerships and strategic alliances at ElevenLabs. Pre

CxC Ep24: AI on the World Stage

This week on Code x Connor, Unit8 co-founder & CTO Michal Rachtan joins us to debrief the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos and discuss global perspectives around AI. A

CxC Ep23: Scaling Ontologies

CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 23 features our friend Francisco Ferreira, Founder and CEO of Datalinks, a company that is laser-focused on bringing human understan