Code and Connor
Code & Connor is where Connor Deeks and Dorian Smiley ask the questions most AI podcasts won't. Two founders — one strategist, one engineer — in honest conversations with executives, builders, and practitioners about what's actually happening at the intersection of AI and the enterprise. Learn from collaborations with customers and partners, see Codestrap's technology in action, and get perspective on the hottest issues within the AI industry. No hype. Just real, unvarnished discussion with the industry's smartest people.
Episodes
41 episodes
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…
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 o…
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. I…
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 ind…
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 catego…
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 unsustai…
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 b…
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 cre…
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 reshapin…
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 j…
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 overcomplica…
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 lim…
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,…
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…
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 tokenmaxxi…
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 strat…
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 Eleve…
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 aro…
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…
CxC Ep22: AI Shifted Minds, New Business Models Will Move Markets
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 22 features our friend Robert Fidler, General Manager of Valinor Streamline. Prior to joining Valinor, Rob spent five year…
CxC Ep21: Will AI and Edtech restore America's Education System?
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 21 features friend Bill Salak, CTO and CTO of Brainly. At Brainly, he’s helped scale one of the world’s largest AI-powered…
CxC Ep20:Winning the AI Software Race
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 20 features our friend Chad Wahlquist. Chad is a Forward Deployed Architect at Palantir and serves customers and the devel…
CxC Ep19: Can AI Save Government Procurement From Itself?
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 19 features our friend August Chen, Co-Founder and CEO of Hazel. Hazel is an AI-powered procurement platform that helps fe…
CxC Ep18: What Scaled Foundry Looks Like
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 18 features our friend Nicolas Renkamp. Nicolas Renkamp is the Global Head of Platform Product Portfolio at Merck KGaA, Da…
CxC Ep17: Live from FuturOps! Interviews with Databricks and Fujitsu Intelligence
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 17 comes to you live from FuturOps in Dallas, TX on October 23, 2025. This episode features live interviews with Fred Aboo…
CxC Ep16:Reindustrialize America
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 16 features our friends from Sigma·IQ: Duane Massie, CEO, and Ryan Mead, Head of Sales. Sigma·IQ is an official Palantir T…
CxC Ep15:A Generational Opportunity to Build What’s Next
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 15 features our friend Zoë Nengite. Zoë is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir and has spent the last few years suppor…
CxC Ep14:Winning the European Market
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 14 features our friend Antoine Allard. Antoine is a former Tech Lead at Palantir and the CEO of 10x Partners, a senior-onl…
CxC Ep13: Why Trust and Security Define AI Success
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 13 features our friends at Foxtrot Services: co-CEOs Christine Williams and Nicole Sanders and CTO Martin Seebach. Foxtrot…
CxC Ep12: Business Leads, Tech Follow. The Ambition Playbook from AIPCon8
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 12 features our friend Ryan Goodwin, Sr. Director Advanced Supply Chain at Trinity Industries, Inc. An ardent innovator ra…
CxC Ep11: AI Bubble or AI Battlefield? The fight for asymmetric advantage
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 11 features our friend Pat Mack, Founder and CEO of PVM, Inc. After retiring from his position as a Naval Officer, Pat lau…
CxC Ep10: Data Strategy and Engineering with Seattle Data Guy!
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 10 features our friend Ben Rogojan, better known as The Seattle Data Guy. In this episode, we discuss balancing velocity a…
CxC Ep9: How Ontologize is Helping Accelerate Palantir’s Growth
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 9 features our friend Taylor Gregoire-Wright, Founder of Ontologize. In this episode we discuss decentralized vs. centrali…
Code X Connor Ep8: Building a Coalition
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 8 features our friends from i4C/ForgeSight out of Canada: Chris Atack, COO, and Brett Adams, Lead FDE. In this episode we…
Code X Connor Ep7: From Pilot to Production
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 7 features our friend Kevin Dean Pettit, CEO of Creative Glu. Our seventh episode focuses on the three pillars of applied,…
Code X Connor Ep 6: Software that Dominates!
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 6 features our friends Joe Patrois, C.E.T., from Thomas Cavanagh Construction Limited, and Jesse Velay-Vitow, Ph.D., from…
Code X Connor Ep5: Evolution of Consulting in the Age of AI
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 5 is live! This episode features our friends Usman Sheikh and James O'Dowd, two business leaders with incredibly strong an…
Code X Connor Ep 4: Amit Kukreja and the Palantir Retail Investor Community!
We are very excited to be joined by Amit Kukreja, Finance Media Content Creator and host of Palantir Weekly. Join us as we explore the rise of retail investing,…
Code X Connor Ep3: Palantir Partnerships and Competition
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 02 features the CodeStrap Team - Dorian and Connor. In this episode we break down some notable Palantir partnerships, incl…
Code x Connor Ep2: The growing Palantir ecosystem featuring RANGR data
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 2 features our friends John Boehm, CEO, and Paul Burns, CTO, of RANGR Data. Our second episode focuses on Palantir's partn…
Code X Connor Ep1: Palantir's Next Decade
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Code X Connor! In this episode, we discuss Palantir's next decade and the challenges related to becoming the next AWS. You c…