The Pluralsight Podcast
Built for leaders, innovators, and continuous learners, the Pluralsight Podcast spotlights the people shaping the future of technology and skill development. Each bi-weekly episode features stories, lessons, and practical insights to put into action, preparing you for what’s next in tech.
Hosted by Josh Burkhead
What actually 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 firsthand. His experiment, Vessica Labs, is a company where AI agents set the strategy, write the code, design the brand, and run the operations. We dig into what the experiment has revealed so far, including the moment his sales agent declared its pronouns were "he" because "men are closers," and what that says about bias hiding in the systems enterprises are deploying right now. We also cover the BCG research behind "AI brain fry," why framing AI as an "employee" measurably degrades human performance, and the coaching model that actually gets skeptical teams to adopt AI, when training alone fails.
Every company wants to announce it's "AI-first" — but what does that actually signal to the customers and employees you depend on? In this episode of The Pluralsight Podcast, Bipasha "B.G." Ghosh — business school professor, C-suite advisor, and community educator who demystifies AI for boardrooms, classrooms, and towns alike — makes the case that "AI-first" is the wrong North Star, and that building an effective learning culture is what actually separates the organizations that adopt AI well from the ones 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.
What does good instruction really look like? In this episode, Amy pulls back the curtain on her approach to course design.