Beyond Vibe Coding is a weekly podcast for senior engineering leaders navigating the impact of AI on how software gets built.
Hosted by Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer in partnership with Impala Search, Germany's leading technology and executive search agency.
Each episode brings together the leaders shaping the next era of engineering - from how teams are adopting AI, to what changes for product and architecture, to what stays unchanged when the tools shift underneath us.
August 20, 2026
Jürgen Helmers joins Beyond Vibe Coding to explain how Andercore is moving from individual AI usage toward loop and harness engineering across a distributed engineering organization. The conversation gets very concrete: Claude-based workflows, markdown skills, Jira and wiki connectors, engineering...
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In this episode of Beyond Vibe Coding, Sebastian Heide-Meyer zu Erpen and André Neubauer talk with Jan Brennenstuhl about application security in the age of agentic engineering. Jan explains how his own workflow already depends on long-running local agents, why the surrounding harness matters more than the frontier model, and...
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Pedro Gil, VP Engineering at Thermondo, joins Sebastian and Andre to discuss how a company with real-world operational constraints approaches agentic engineering. The episode starts with Pedro’s own workflow: Claude Code acts as a chief of staff across Slack, Confluence, email, research, and codebase exploration, while his personal agent experiments...
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Stefan Lange-Hegermann joins Beyond Vibe Coding to explain how sipgate thinks about AI sovereignty from the inside of a real product and engineering organization. The episode starts with sipgate’s AI telephony work: speech-to-text, LLMs, text-to-speech, anonymized customer data, fine-tuned call-analysis models and the strategic belief that agents will increasingly use...
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Benjamin Hoskins joins Beyond Vibe Coding to discuss what agentic engineering looks like when it is grounded in serious engineering practice rather than prompt-driven improvisation. His personal workflow combines a custom Card Planner, MCP, Allium, big batches of red unit and end-to-end tests, boundary value analysis, hexagonal architecture, IntelliJ-based refactoring,...
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Stefan Schubert-Peters returns to Beyond Vibe Coding to discuss a topic many engineering organizations are only beginning to name: AI adoption and AI identity change are not the same thing. At felmo, a difficult retro around AI, job security and career anxiety made him realize that even experienced engineers who...
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Italo Vietro joins Beyond Vibe Coding to describe how Parloa, a company building AI agents for enterprise customer experience, uses AI internally to change the way engineering works. The episode centers on Parloa’s internal “kitchen”: a shared harness of skills, agents and workflows that helps engineers with implementation, SRE, security,...
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