Peer Review: CircleCI's CEO & CTO on Why They're Both Building Again

Aug 10, 2026

Jim Rose and Rob Zuber have been working together since 2011. By now they can plan a quarter with hand signals. But this episode of Peer Review isn't about how well they know each other. It's about what they're still figuring out.

CircleCI's CEO and CTO sit down to talk about what they've always believed about software delivery (it's about outcomes, not craft), how the pace of change has forced them back into the trenches of actually building, and what it means to lead a technical organization when the state of the art is shifting faster than any pitch deck can keep up with.

Jim is writing specs again. Rob is writing code again. And their read on why that matters, not just for them but for everyone building at CircleCI right now, is worth tuning in for.

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