ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The IT XP is a podcast for IT professionals with real experience in the field.
If you have been in infrastructure, systems administration, or IT leadership for any length of time, you already know the gap between how IT gets talked about and how it actually works. This show lives in that gap.
Hosted by Chuck, with 25 years in IT, The IT XP covers the AI tools actually worth your time, career strategy for experienced practitioners, and honest perspective on what is happening in the field right now. Not the vendor version. Not the hype cycle version. The version from someone who has lived the same career you have.
The central thesis is simple: the more experience you have, the more valuable AI makes you. Every episode is built around that idea.
New episodes drop regularly at theitxp.com.
If you have been in infrastructure, systems administration, or IT leadership for any length of time, you already know the gap between how IT gets talked about and how it actually works. This show lives in that gap.
Hosted by Chuck, with 25 years in IT, The IT XP covers the AI tools actually worth your time, career strategy for experienced practitioners, and honest perspective on what is happening in the field right now. Not the vendor version. Not the hype cycle version. The version from someone who has lived the same career you have.
The central thesis is simple: the more experience you have, the more valuable AI makes you. Every episode is built around that idea.
New episodes drop regularly at theitxp.com.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 34 days
Average audio length:
39 minutes
English
United States
145 episodes
since Jan. 23, 2015
episodic
explicit content
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Don't fear the AI revolution. Sitting with Grok Bot Galaxy building a company from scratch got me thinking out loud: doom vs benefit, how different cultures frame AI, token cost when you're running brands solo, and the people still outside the AI bubble — from a retiree in a birthday-store line to …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Chuck breaks down the latest articles in his Tech Lead Shift series and connects them to what he saw firsthand at AWS Summit in June 2025. Agentic systems are resolving outages without human intervention. One-person teams are shipping in weeks what used to take a dozen engineers two years. The cor…
After fixing his delegation instructions, the drift didn't stop. It just moved. And when Chuck traced it back, he found something that had nothing to do with the agent.
This episode is the third in the Tech Lead Shift leadership series, and it's where the first two threads come together. Episode…
_*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> Chuck thought he was a pretty good delegator. Nearly 15 years of leading technology teams across complicated problems. Clear on the outcome, not just the task. Follow up without micromanaging. Sit down with the person when something goes sideways, find the disconnect, confir…
Chuck has been in IT for nearly three decades. He's watched technology shift from something only specialists understood to something everybody has in their pocket. And now he's watching something new happen in real time -- organizations deploying AI agents at full speed while nobody in the room as…
Season 12 is officially here. Chuck breaks down the AI stack he's running — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and ElevenLabs — and reframes how you should be talking to LLMs. Then, he takes you inside 12 days in China: a cashless, all-electric, QR-code-powered reality check on how far ahead mobile-fir…
After 25+ years in IT, Chuck shares his unfiltered 2-year AI journey—from skeptic to AI-first. Why 2026 is the year IT professionals can't afford to wait on AI experimentation.
It's December 31st, 2025—the last day of the year and the final episode of 2025 for The IT XP. Chuck gets personal about …
After 17 years at a large utility company managing decade-long waterfall projects, Don Freeman made a radical pivot into the fast-paced world of Web3 startups—without ever applying for the job. In this episode of The IT XP, Don shares how his contributions to the Ethereum Foundation's web3.py libr…
A 2025 Deloitte survey of 23,000 workers across 44 countries found only 6% of Gen Z aspire to senior leadership. Chuck—upper-middle management for over a decade—unpacks the real math behind the 94% rejection rate, shares war stories on emotional labor, and previews next week's dive into AI replacin…
Chuck breaks down his first-ever Microsoft Ignite experience in San Francisco—from navigating the massive Moscone Center venue to cutting through the "Copilot everything" sales pitch. If you've wondered whether mega-conferences like Ignite are worth the hype (and the $400+/night hotel bill), this …
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