Ready, Set, Runtime is a podcast from AHEAD about how AI is changing the way software gets built, secured, shipped, and paid for.

The questions go well beyond code generation. What happens to Agile when delivery speeds up? How do teams govern AI without slowing down? What does it take to move from experimentation to deployment at scale?

Host Michael "MK" Kolbrener, AHEAD's Field CTO for Financial Services and Capital Markets, brings those questions to the practitioners and industry experts doing the work. Topics this season include:

• Accelerated development and agentic engineering
• Accountability and security when AI writes the code
• What AI actually costs, and how leaders decide what it's worth
• Closing the gap between the demo and enterprise deployment
• The deve ...