The Qualified Answer
The Qualified Answer dissects the real decisions senior technology leaders make - what was chosen, what was traded away, and what they wish they'd known. Because every honest expert answer comes with conditions. This podcast unpacks them.
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You measure your systems with averages, your board deck is full of "AI," and you barely open your IDE anymore. Three things worth a second look — because each one is a signal, and the signal matters more than the noise.
In this solo episode, Simon makes the case for measuring at the tail instead of the mean (and why the 99th percentile is usually where the gold is), unpacks why AI washing is jus...
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For most of three decades, "good code" had a definition. Then ChatGPT launched, and within months the canonical principles of software engineering — KISS, DRY, YAGNI, the lot — collapsed in value almost overnight.
Simon Raik-Allen, CTO at Mindset Health and a former Monash AI researcher who spent a decade building simulators to teach machines how to code, dove head-first into the new model...
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You can run a perfect dashboard and still be making bad calls. The numbers say everything's fine - but you haven't spoken to anyone close to the work in weeks.
In this solo episode, Simon unpacks the three people-shaped foundations of good leadership decisions: how you get people to care when there's no ROI line for it, why culture has to be lived rather than written on a wall, and the discipline of r...
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What if the whole business went fast together?
You've spent two years getting product and engineering shipping multiple times a day. Releases are fast and of high quality. Then you notice the company isn't actually moving any faster.
Herry Wiputra spent seven and a half years at hipages tackling that exact problem. After accelerating product and engineering, he made a controversial call - break the sil...
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You wired up a service, did the mental arithmetic, moved on. Then the bill arrived and it wasn't $20, $50, or even $100. It was thousands.
In this solo episode, Simon Elisha walks through his own recent bill shock and what it forced him to confront: the difference between intending to monitor a system and actually building the feedback loop that does it for you. He works through the architecture of th...
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Imagine spending millions of dollars and months of preparation on a revolutionary e-commerce platform, only to launch to absolute crickets. In the inaugural episode of The Qualified Answer, host Simon Elisha takes us back to the dot-com boom to dissect a spectacular B2B reverse auction failure—and explains why the hard lessons learned then are repeating themselves in today's AI gold rush.
From n...
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Every honest answer in technology comes with conditions.
The Qualified Answer is a decisions podcast for senior technology leaders - the ones who own the call, and the ones who execute it.
Each episode is either a decision case - a senior leader walks you through one real call they had to make, what they chose, what they traded away, and what they wish they'd known - or a solo deep dive...
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