Aug 4, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 14 segments
The CTO Lens Podcast is back for Season 3, Episode 11. This week David and Sophie are joined by Richard Tworek, CTO at Riverbed Technology, for a wide-ranging conversation on observability, tool…
Sophie ValentineHost
Richard TworekGuest
David, what is top of list for you? Have you caught anything interesting in the news this week?
Now, we know that all versions of AI out there are doing some interesting things at the minute.
you know, the news story has been all over the place, but basically they were just like literally the conversations almost verbatim were showing up in searches.
And so somehow this information has like got outside of the plodding world and has found its way into, I guess, websites or conversations
can't find out, right? And I don't really want to go into the detail, the technical detail of this, but it just made me stop and think.
So, you know, we have, as technology leaders, we have lots of policies in our company.
Have I got this angle covered? You know, what are we saying to people? So we say to people as a behavioral policy in meetings, you know, don't say anything that you wouldn't be happy to write down.
Don't do anything like that when you're talking to your chatbot of choice, your AI chatbot of choice.

David, what is top of list for you? Have you caught anything interesting in the news this week?
Now, we know that all versions of AI out there are doing some interesting things at the minute.
you know, the news story has been all over the place, but basically they were just like literally the conversations almost verbatim were showing up in searches.
And so somehow this information has like got outside of the plodding world and has found its way into, I guess, websites or conversations
can't find out, right? And I don't really want to go into the detail, the technical detail of this, but it just made me stop and think.
So, you know, we have, as technology leaders, we have lots of policies in our company.
Have I got this angle covered? You know, what are we saying to people? So we say to people as a behavioral policy in meetings, you know, don't say anything that you wouldn't be happy to write down.
Don't do anything like that when you're talking to your chatbot of choice, your AI chatbot of choice.
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