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The Aboard Podcast

Talking about AI doesn’t have to feel like the end of the world. Join Rich Ziade, Paul Ford, and their guests as they discuss how AI is changing software development, business strategy—and everything else. New episodes every Tuesday.

Website ↗ Last published 27 October 2026 229 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The Aboard Podcast

“In no other business area, Paul, is anybody asking you, do you need a chair to do your work?” — Allison Fine, The Aboard Podcast
Allison Fine · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“People see their skills and expertise as a territory to be defended. … What I'm going to say to that person is: see your skills and expertise as a body of knowledge to be shared and transmitted as opposed to a territory to be defended.” — Paul Ford, The Aboard Podcast
Paul Ford · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Everybody keeps acting like it's akin to nuclear explosions. It's actually more like environmental pollution.” — Paul Ford, The Aboard Podcast
Paul Ford · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I put in as my topic AI and journalism and did girl boss and came out with this terrible post. I posted it directly to my LinkedIn, of course. And it is by far the most successful thing I've ever posted on LinkedIn.” — Katie Notopoulos, The Aboard Podcast
Katie Notopoulos · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I like the utility of it as a programmer. If it would just produce Axios-style bullet lists. Just sort of like, here are the three things I did. Here are the three things I'm thinking of doing. But it's got to tell you a little story because they all went to gifted program and they all got to show you, oh boy, look how smart and funny I am.” — Paul Ford, The Aboard Podcast
Paul Ford · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“A huge part of working with AI is trying to figure out how to use less of it to get more out. Like, what is the least of this I can use to get really good outputs?” — Paul Ford, The Aboard Podcast
Paul Ford · 29 Sep 2026 Listen →
“The fundamental, just grumpy narcissism of humans is an incredibly good force when it is applied in an interesting way.” — Paul Ford, The Aboard Podcast
Paul Ford · 29 Sep 2026 Listen →
“The fantasy is that you will put enough information into the system and it will resolve it for you so that you can avoid talking to people who may or may not like or trust you... The fantasy that you're being sold is that the robot will do it for you and it's never going to work.” — Paul Ford, The Aboard Podcast
Paul Ford · 8 Sep 2026 Listen →
“I just went to his version of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and I just listened to it top to bottom and it was a million times better than anything the computer could make. And it was a human being and it was a moment of connection... people are not gonna change after thousands of years just because the robot can whistle a happy tune.” — Paul Ford, The Aboard Podcast
Paul Ford · 25 Aug 2026 Listen →
“You may think the hard part's behind you because you built something that used to take four months in a day, but it turns out the work is still ahead. Why? Because you're not the only one with that tool. Everybody's got it. And there's another ugly plot twist, which is that tool has absolutely no originality by design.” — Paul Ford, The Aboard Podcast
Paul Ford · 11 Aug 2026 Listen →
“I say, hey, Claude, I know you know about all the other candle stores. Do me a favor, veer off a little bit, take a swing. And it is like your uncle at karaoke. It is not good.” — Paul Ford, The Aboard Podcast
Paul Ford · 11 Aug 2026 Listen →
“The minute somebody starts saying you can parallelize this with lots of agents, you know you're in a pickle. Because that means more software, whereas absolutely no one outside of our world is actually sitting there saying, I need more software.” — Paul Ford, The Aboard Podcast
Paul Ford · 14 Jul 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Aboard Podcast is hosted by Paul Ford and Rich Ziade .

Recent Episodes

  1. 27 Oct 2026

    Allison Fine: Making AI-Driven Change Less Scary

    With Allison Fine

  2. 20 Oct 2026

    Ask Aboard: AI Security, Bad Clients, and Yacht Rock

  3. 13 Oct 2026

    Jason Goldman: From VC Pitches to AI Kill Switches

    With Jason Goldman

  4. 6 Oct 2026

    Katie Notopoulos: There Are Still LOLs on the Internet

    With Katie Notopoulos

  5. 29 Sep 2026

    Is Jev the New Shape of AI?

  6. 22 Sep 2026

    Charity Majors: Embrace Your Computer’s Chaos

    With Charity Majors

  7. 15 Sep 2026

    AI Companies Shouldn’t Police Themselves

  8. 8 Sep 2026

    AI Versus…Talking to People?

  9. 1 Sep 2026

    Josh Tyrangiel: Media, Moats, and Middle School

    With Josh Tyrangiel

  10. 25 Aug 2026

    It’s Fun to Ship Software

  11. 18 Aug 2026

    Kate Lee: Can AI Replace Editors Like Me?

    With Kate Lee

  12. 11 Aug 2026

    Why Is It So Hard To Ship With AI?

Guests

Jason Goldman (2 episodes), Josh Tyrangiel (2 episodes), Hilary Mason , andrew marantz , Max Read , Gideon Lewis-Kraus , Tricia Wang , Kevin Barrett , Matt Levine , Dan Frommer , Craig Mod , Brendan McGuire , and 22 more.