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Michele Brissoni & Alessandro Di Gioia: Why Two AI Engineers Released 20 Years of Work as Open Source - For Free
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Michele and Alessandro spent nearly three decades combined building software in the trenches - then released their AI productivity framework, nWave, as open source for free on Valentine’s Day 2026.
Their argument is not about the technology. It is about what happens when companies try to bolt AI onto broken systems: the AI amplifies the dysfunction, not the output. The founders who will win the next five years are not the ones with the best models - they are the ones who fixed their foundations before AI arrived.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Why releasing your core product for free can be a stronger enterprise positioning move than any paid launch
- What most organisations completely misunderstand about why their AI investment is not delivering returns
- How to assess whether your systems are actually ready for AI adoption before spending another dollar
- Why putting AI on top of a broken process is the equivalent of fitting a Ferrari engine into a rusty car
- What the human-in-the-loop model means in practice — and why fully offloading to AI is not the goal
ABOUT THE GUESTS
Michele Brissoni is co-founder of nWave, an open source AI-powered software development framework built on nearly three decades of engineering experience across enterprise and startup environments. He has survived a near-fatal accident including a period in a coma, rebuilt from a wheelchair, and brings a human-centred philosophy to AI development that has been tested at Ferrari, Ducati, and across multiple enterprise engagements.
Alessandra Di Gioia is co-founder of nWave and brings a complementary engineering and product background built entirely outside Italy, with a focus on structured, disciplined software delivery. Together they released nWave as open source on Valentine’s Day 2026 with an enterprise tier for organisations requiring governance and advanced features.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Teaser — why they gave 20 years of work away for free
00:13 How Michele and Alessandro found each other — two Italians, same obsession
01:40 What Alessandro sees in Michele that the world doesn’t
04:39 How they challenge each other — the visionary and the craftsman
07:18 Why they released nWave as open source on Valentine’s Day
09:26 What nWave actually does — AI as amplifier, not replacement
14:55 The Renaissance analogy — human-centred software and what it means
17:12 The red pill — the uncomfortable truth most organisations can’t face
20:22 Why putting AI on broken systems makes dysfunction worse
24:08 This or That rapid fire
28:01 The body that failed or the mind that didn’t — Michele’s coma story
34:55 What every founder should do differently tomorrow morning
IMPORTANT LINKS
www.nwave.ai
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