The AI CEO Era: Breaking Build Bottlenecks with Vibe Coding | Ahmad Shadid

The AI CEO Era: Breaking Build Bottlenecks with Vibe Coding | Ahmad Shadid

Published: October 17, 2025

Duration: 47:10

In this episode of The Defiant Podcast, Vinny sits down with Ahmad Shadid—former quant trader turned founder—who redirected the 2022 GPU crunch into a decentralized GPU network and now leads a bold push toward “sovereign superintelligence”: an AI CEO framework that can govern, fund, and scale itself transparently. 


We unpack vibe coding (building with AI at 20x speed), how zero-knowledge proofs and decentralized networks could reshape AI, and why security must keep pace in a world moving faster than audits. We talk leadership, the democratization of software, and the next wave of founders shipping...