Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Steve Dickens, a chief technology advisor for cloud infrastructure at The Futurum Group, dive into how the management of IT infrastructure will need to evolve in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Then, they discuss the degree to which IT organizations are ready to operationalize AI.

Finally, the gang turns its attention to whether the movement to shift more responsibility left towards developers is dead or simply being reincarnated in form of platform engineering. Finishing Techstrong Gang is Byte Me – with Ira Winkler”. There's a lot of talk about the lack of true entry level cybersecurity positions and the unwillingness for companies to open such positions. Ira Winkler contends that cybersecurity is not an entry level job, and the "entry level positions" for cybersecurity are networking, programming, administration, etc, and people should accept this and get over it.