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Rethink Engineering
From AI-native software development to engineering leadership and organizational transformation, we explore what it takes to build the next generation of engineering organizations.
Episodes
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Patrick Debois: Your Software Factory Should Be a Dream Factory
Patrick Debois, who organised the first DevOpsDays in 2009 and is now an independent advisor and Product DevRel Lead at Tessl, joins Benedikt Stemmildt to look…
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Sam Newman on Software Factories: Why AI Can't Fix Your Production Incidents (Yet)
Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices and the new Building Resilient Distributed Systems, joins Benedikt Stemmildt to talk about resilience engineering…
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Inside Steve Yegge's Software Factory: Lessons from Running 50 Agents
What happens when you actually run a software factory? Steve Yegge, creator of Gas Town and Beads, runs around 50 AI agents on his long-running online game…
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72x Faster Software Delivery with a Former AI Skeptic
The episode begins with a candid look at Dominic Warchalowski and his evolution from a staunch AI skeptic to a lead engineer driving a massive velocity…
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Scaling AI Enablement: How Odevo Upskilled Engineering
The conversation begins with an inside look at Odevo, a massive Swedish property technology company managing residential assets globally. Tomasz outlines the…
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Scaling Code Review When AI Writes the Software
The episode begins by addressing a stark new reality for engineering teams: AI agents are writing code at an unprecedented pace, leading to pull requests that…
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From Telemetry to Empathy: Measuring AI in Your Teams
The Opening Context The conversation begins with a critical look at how engineering organizations measure success in the era of AI. Lauren Peate CEO of…
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Bridging the Skills Gap: Insights from Agentic Coding Training
The conversation begins by tracing the professional trajectories of Daniel Jones and Benedict Stemmelt, two practitioners who found common ground in the shared…
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Software Factories: From Outputs to Business Outcomes
The episode opens with urgency as Daniel Jones and Mike Gehard reflect on a fortnight of agentic breakthroughs—specifically "dark factories" where humans are…
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Evals, reducing hallucinations, & AI-native development
The episode opens with Amy Heineike outlining Tessl's core mission: building documentation registries optimized for coding agents. Daniel Jones notes the…
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DORA 2025, the Psychology of Agentic Coding, and Value Stream Management
In this week's episode of Waves of Innovation, host Daniel Jones reconnects with "Big" Rob Edwards, a Google Cloud expert, DORA contributor, and long-time…
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From Tech Stacks to Mindsets: The Psychology of Transformation
Why do so many digital transformations hit a wall? You can have the fastest cloud platform or the most advanced AI agents, but if you ignore the humans…
Rethink EngineeringFrom Coding to Context Switching: An AI Retrospective
What happens after you go "all in" on AI coding assistants? In this episode, Deejay catches up with Elliott Beatty, host of the Agentic CTO podcast, and VP of…
Rethink EngineeringWhy AI Isn't Just More Software: A Guide to ML, MLOps, and Reinforcement Learning
Why do AI projects feel so unpredictable? If you've ever been frustrated by a machine learning project that shows "nothing, nothing... then suddenly…
Rethink EngineeringAI on Nightmare Difficulty: Secure Code Generation in the US Government
How do you implement cutting-edge AI in one of the world's most regulated and secure environments? In this episode, Deejay talks to Mike Gehard, Director of…
Rethink EngineeringThe Banker Who Built an AI Factory
In this episode, we sit down with Nick Gushchin, founder of the Swiss AI Chatbot Factory, to hear his incredible story of career transformation. After nearly…
Rethink EngineeringBuilding AI agents in sensitive financial enterprises
What's the most important skill for building reliable AI? It might not be what you think. In this episode, we sit down with Qamir Hussain, Head of AI at Arisa…
Rethink EngineeringThe Coddling is Over: AI and the New Era for Developers
Feeling overwhelmed by the new wave of AI jargon? You're not alone. In this episode, we're joined by Hannah Foxwell, a tech leader who, after feeling…
Rethink EngineeringHow to Achieve 250% Velocity with Generative AI
What would it take to have your engineering team write almost no code by the end of 2026? That's the audacious goal tech leader Elliot Beaty set for his team…
Rethink EngineeringIntroducing Waves of Innovation
Welcome to the first episode of Waves of Innovation. This podcast, and the community around it, started with a simple question: What if we could approach the…