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• Legora CTO: Why AI Agents Need More Than a Chat Window

  October 6, 2026 · 44 min

  AI coding agents now write almost all of Legora's code, with engineers running up to ten in parallel. Yet the CTO behind that shift thinks measuring adoption by tokens burned is a mistake. Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, joins Simon Maple…

• Liz Fong-Jones: 2x the PRs, 1.5x the Incidents

  September 29, 2026 · 50 min

  Honeycomb went from 30 to 70 merged pull requests a day in three months. The catch: automated code review, not code generation, became the real bottleneck of software automation. Liz Fong-Jones, Technical Fellow at Honeycomb, explains why…

• Dexter Horthy: Why We Stopped Trusting AI to Write the Plan

  September 22, 2026 · 56 min

  HumanLayer CEO Dexter Horthy on why his team's bet on spec driven development nearly wrecked their own codebase, and what changed his mind about reviewing AI-written code. Dexter walks through the "YOLO pull request" experiment that ran…

• AWS's Marc Brooker: Specs, Not Code, Are the Hard Part

  September 16, 2026 · 57 min

  Spec-driven development is reshaping what software engineers actually do all day, and Marc Brooker, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS, has read 3,000 to 4,000 postmortems that convinced him the code was never the hard part. In this…

• You Don't Need Juniors to Code. Hire Them Anyway.

  September 8, 2026 · 52 min

  Coding agent reliability isn't a model problem, it's a gates problem. Ran Aroussi, creator of yfinance and founder of Automaze, argues that an "agentic workflow" is a contradiction in terms, and that the only thing standing between you and…

• 850 PRs a Week: How Tessl Runs a Software Factory

  September 2, 2026 · 51 min

  The software factory that put up 850 pull requests in a week, with 85 to 90% of them handled by agents end to end. Tessl's Head of Product Dru Knox on how it actually got built, why it started with skills rather than automation, and the…

• Lada Kesseler: I Trust AI Tests Less Than AI Code

  August 25, 2026 · 46 min

  Lada Kesseler's approach to loop engineering is brutally simple: give the agent one step, make it write the result to a file, then read it back and go again. She calls it a centrifuge. Spin fast enough and the stupid comes out. The…

• Every Repo Is a Software Factory Now | Don Syme, GitHub

  August 18, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

  Turning every repo into a software factory sounds like marketing until you see the machinery underneath. Don Syme, Principal Researcher at GitHub, breaks down continuous AI and GitHub Agentic Workflows, now in public preview. The short…