Podcast

Agent Driven Development

Practical perspectives on AI-native software development for engineering leaders.

  1. You Have a Sub-Five Miler. Your Relay Team Still Loses.
  2. For Five Days His Team Was Accidentally Allowed to Be as Good as They Actually Are
  3. Why Are You Deprioritizing the Most Important Training Your Org Will Ever Get?
  4. Without Writing Out the Standard, Your AI SDLC Will Struggle — Introducing the AI Software Engineer, a Silly Name for a Serious Problem
  5. You Are About to Hire a VP of AI Capability. Do Not.
  6. If You Are Tracking Activities Without Outcomes, You Have Already Lost
  7. If Mythos Is Real, Will the Board Wait 24 Months While You Figure It Out?
  8. Your Transformation Org Just Got a Fifteen-Year Service Award. Now You Want to Repeat That Pattern with AI?
  9. Should You Take That Job or Should You Stay

    Episode 64

    Should You Take That Job or Should You Stay

    Apr 3, 2026 · 21:50

  10. You Do Not Have Time for a Two-Hour Kickoff but You Have Time to Fail for a Year
  11. I Drove a Cactus Into a House in Marseille, France

    Episode 62

    I Drove a Cactus Into a House in Marseille, France

    Apr 2, 2026 · 14:13

  12. Introducing Synthetic Users, Customers, and Personas

    Episode 61

    Introducing Synthetic Users, Customers, and Personas

    Mar 27, 2026 · 21:57

  13. Your Leaders Stopped Building. Now Vendors Own Your AI Strategy.
  14. The Tool Is a Commodity. The Organizational Adoption Expertise Is Not.
  15. Gen 1 Lights-Off Development: I Am Building It and You Can Watch
  16. How to Build an AI-Native Engineering Team (Not an AI-Assisted One)
  17. We Kissed Specs and PRDs Goodbye. Product Managers Pass POCs Now.
  18. Stop Reviewing Code. Start Proving It Works. My Take on AI in the Quality Process of Software.
  19. Dear Coding Agent Builders and Corporate Leaders Funding These Tools: Just Give Me the Best Model
  20. Your Codebase Is Not Agent-Maintainable and That Is Your Next Big Problem
  21. Customer Absorption: Your New Software Engineering Bottleneck
  22. Everything You Learned About the Testing Pyramid Was Based on a Constraint That No Longer Exists
  23. Every Consultant Says They Can Fix Your Legacy App with AI — Here Is the Test
  24. One Hundred POCs a Day

    Episode 49

    One Hundred POCs a Day

    Mar 11, 2026 · 14:33

  25. Your Engineering Team Ships in 28 Days. Ten of Those Days Are Work. The Other Eighteen Are a Leadership Problem.
  26. The Customer Product Operating Model

    Episode 47

    The Customer Product Operating Model

    Mar 9, 2026 · 16:25

  27. You Added AI Agents. Why Are You Still Running a Separate Quality Organization Like It Is 2009?
  28. The Fifty Million Dollar Question — Stop Transforming. Start Building.
  29. Your Sales CRM Is Now a Tax, Not a Moat

    Episode 44

    Your Sales CRM Is Now a Tax, Not a Moat

    Mar 8, 2026 · 12:39

  30. If Your CFO Is Picking Your AI Tools, You Do Not Have an AI Strategy
  31. Dear CISO — Your Job Is Not to Stop AI. Your Job Is to Make It Safe to Ship.
  32. Everything You Learned About Building Software Is Already Wrong
  33. Will You Make It?

    Episode 40

    Will You Make It?

    Mar 5, 2026 · 12:31

  34. AI Will Not Save Your Monolith. These Three Things Might.
  35. I Think I Know Where Your High Performers Are

    Episode 38

    I Think I Know Where Your High Performers Are

    Mar 5, 2026 · 6:00

  36. First Principles for AI-Native Engineering Execution (For CxOs)
  37. The Board Memo Version: Four Sessions, Four Decisions, One Operating Plan
  38. The Executive Operating Model We Run In Private: Four Sessions That Turn AI Anxiety Into Board-Grade Decisions
  39. You Added AI. Congratulations — You Now Run a Slop Factory.
  40. Customer Zero: Two Engineers. One Year. More Output Than Ten.
  41. The People Conversation

    Episode 32

    The People Conversation

    Feb 13, 2026 · 8:54

  42. The Quiet Gift of 2025: Three Models That Changed Everything
  43. The Use Case Is Building Software and the Best Practice Is Today
  44. If Your Engineers Only Get Thirty Minutes to Learn, That Is Not Their Failure. It Is Yours.
  45. Congratulations: You Just Reinvented Peter Gibbons from Office Space
  46. The 2028 Problem You’re Creating in 2025

    Episode 27

    The 2028 Problem You’re Creating in 2025

    Nov 27, 2025 · 6:06

  47. Stop Asking for “Advanced” AI Training

    Episode 26

    Stop Asking for “Advanced” AI Training

    Nov 26, 2025 · 3:49

  48. If Your Vendor Doesn’t Ask These Three Questions Before the Demo, Politely Ask for a Field CTO Who Will
  49. If You Want to Measure Macro Results, Answer These 3 Questions Before AI Touches Your SDLC
  50. Dear Jim in Detroit — Don’t Punish Your Top AI Dev
  51. What Got You Here Won’t Keep You Here: A Letter to Technology Executives
  52. What Got You Here Won’t Keep You Here: A Letter to VPs of Engineering
  53. What Got You Here Won’t Keep You Here: A Letter to Engineering Directors
  54. What Got You Here Won’t Keep You Here: A Letter to Mid and Late-Career Developers
  55. The Engineers Who Can’t Use AI Agents Don’t Have a Tools Problem
  56. Exploring Developer Happiness in the AI-SDLC

    Episode 17

    Exploring Developer Happiness in the AI-SDLC

    Nov 16, 2025 · 13:33

  57. You Cannot Read Yourself Into AI-SDLC Literacy

    Episode 16

    You Cannot Read Yourself Into AI-SDLC Literacy

    Nov 15, 2025 · 8:42

  58. Your Questions About AI in the SDLC Reveal Exactly Where You Are in the Adoption Curve—And How to Bridge the Gap Before You Waste a Year
  59. Gen AI in the SDLC Is Infrastructure Now—And Every One of Your Engineers Picked Their Own
  60. Waste Density vs Value Density: Managing the Emotions of Your Board with Real Economics
  61. Goodnight to Epics, Stories and Features: A Feature A Day is the New Normal
  62. Your Best Salesperson Didn’t Pick Salesforce. Your Best Engineer Shouldn’t Pick Their AI.
  63. How to Negotiate Your new AI Leadership Comp

    Episode 10

    How to Negotiate Your new AI Leadership Comp

    Nov 2, 2025 · 3:12

  64. Leading AI in the Constraints

    Episode 9

    Leading AI in the Constraints

    Nov 2, 2025 · 8:00

  65. As CxO, the 2 Things Your HR Needs to Do Different
  66. Hello New CTO : Your Loan Engine Cost More than Giving Billionaires Free Cars
  67. How to Win Without Disruption: The Senior Director’s Guide to AI That Actually Wins
  68. The Bottlenecked CEO: You Don’t Need New Metrics to Quantify AI Value. You Need the Courage to Eliminate the Silos That Make Measurement Impossible.
  69. He Cannot Hire the Engineer He Needs. Here’s What He’s Doing About It.
  70. Every Agile Artifact Was Built to Derisk Humans Writing Code
  71. Your AI Agent is the World’s Most Educated Five-Year-Old
  72. Your AI Investment Is Failing. Here’s Why.

    Episode 1

    Your AI Investment Is Failing. Here’s Why.

    Oct 10, 2025 · 8:49