Sami Birnbaum

Co-Host of Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

559: The European Accessibility Act: Are You Ready for 2025?

January 30th, 2025 | Season 14 | 37 mins

Sami and Rémy are back as your hots as they talk with fellow thoughtbot colleague Caro Sotillo Silva about new accessibility laws coming into effect later this year.
557: AI from Automation to Transformation with Andrew Rashbass

January 16th, 2025 | Season 14 | 38 mins 8 secs

Sami talks with Andrew Rashbass, Chairman and Co-Founder of ScultureAI, about the uses of LLMs and where AI is taking us as a society.
553: The One with Sami and Chad

December 5th, 2024 | Season 14 | 38 mins 9 secs

After 10 years and 550 episodes of Giant Robots, Chad and Sami are ready to discuss what’s next for the podcast. The pair dive into some podcast role-play as they test out some ideas for iterating the show’s formula.

Peak behind the curtain as they discuss the inner workings of the show, the challenges of working on a mature codebase, how thoughtbot tackles impostor syndrome when onboarding new employees and the developing accessibility of AI.
548: Product Management vs Project Management with Bethan Ashley

November 1st, 2024 | Season 14 | 34 mins 35 secs

In this episode, we're joined by Senior Product Manager at thoughtbot and Founderland Startup Mentor, Bethan Ashley, who shares her insights and advice on how and when to leverage AI tooling, the difference between project management and product management, and much more.