About this episode

Anuraag Jain discusses the importance of CTOs in the AI era and the nuances of vibe coding.

# Show Notes: Vibe Coding and Real World Problems: Why AI Still Needs a CTO **Guest:** Anuraag Jain, CTO, Executive Coach and Author **Website:** [growthvariable.com](https://www.growthvariable.com) **LinkedIn:** [Anuraag Jain](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuraagjain) --- ## About This Episode Anuraag Jain is a 30-year tech industry veteran who started as an Oracle DBA in India without an engineering degree and became a CTO in under nine years. He was the first developer hired at Betfair, where he built the betting exchange engine behind one of the era's biggest fintech IPOs, and served as CTO at The Hut Group (THG) during their run as the UK's fastest-growing tech company. In this episode, Bhairav and Anuraag talk honestly about vibe coding: what it can do, where it breaks down, and why thirty years of building things under pressure still matters in an AI-assisted world. --- ## What We Cover - How two non-traditional hires found their way into tech and why that background shaped how they build - The early days at Betfair: manual bet settlement, shoestring infrastructure, and recovering 36 hours of betting data from server log files at 2am - What scaling really means when you…

Topics covered

• AI and technology
• vibe coding
• CTO roles
• tech industry experience
• security in AI
• scaling technology

Keywords

• AI
• CTO
• vibe coding
• Betfair
• The Hut Group
• tech industry
• security
• scaling

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