Is Helping with Strategic Decisions about Codebases a Good Niche?

Is Helping with Strategic Decisions about Codebases a Good Niche?

Author: Erik Dietrich July 6, 2026 Duration: 23:48
This one hits close to home for me.  A reader/viewer wondered if helping companies make strategic decisions about codebases is a good niche, and I can answer this because it was once kind of my niche.    View this podcast as a video on YouTube. Picks: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unusual VC shared advice on how do you work with design partners?, with a StackRox co-founder's take on setting expectations and getting honest feedback during early product development. Workato introduced Workato Enterprise MCP, letting existing API integrations be reused as agent-callable tools for LLMs like Claude. Tricentis shows how ai test automation tools help enterprise teams automate testing, improve quality, and reduce release risk with AI-powered quality engineering. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These podcasts are courtesy of Hit Subscribe, a content agency whose authors are all techies: https://www.hitsubscribe.com/ 

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