Episodes · every two weeks · Thursday 10:00 Sofia
Every episode.
One conversation each. What the guest runs, what broke, and where they still keep a person in the loop.
- EP. 03EP. 03 · Milko Slavov · felan.ai · 29 Oct 2026A lot more light rooms insideMilko doesn’t think you can build a business on a factory that is completely dark. He keeps three rooms lit.Keeps the lights on: What to build, Architecture, Release sign-off · L2Planned to run his startup as one person and a team of agents. Then he hired a human engineer.
EP. 02 · Patrick Debois · Tessl · 15 Oct 2026 · 49:17Is the future of software engineering a factory?Tessl ran a hackathon and ended up with five or six factories. One of them took over the marketing board. Another morning, the factory had filed 15 tickets about improving itself, and nobody owned them.Keeps the lights on: Factory owner · L4Gave the industry the word DevOps. Co-wrote the DevOps Handbook. Runs software factories at Tessl.
EP. 01 · Vladimir Petrov · Cobalt Code · 1 Oct 2026 · 54:40Your job was never to write codeVladimir pointed agents at three months of open tickets. They opened 25 pull requests at once and took a server down. Then the bottleneck kept moving, from review to CI to the one person approving each deploy.Keeps the lights on: What to build · L4Has written code for 30 years. Builds a software factory at Cobalt Code.
EP. 00 · Danail and Vitaliy · 1 Oct 2026We are building our podcast in publicDanail and Vitaliy on why they started the show, what a software dark factory is, and the question every guest will get.- EP. 04EP. 04 · Boris Paskalev · LogicStar · out 12 Nov 2026Episode fourRecorded. Out on 12 November.