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Dave O'Dell and Dan McAulay work inside engineering organizations every day, helping them ship faster with AI — not in theory, but inside their actual teams. Each week they share what they're seeing in the field: what's working, what isn't, and what most people are getting wrong. Covering Claude Code updates, AI-enabled SDLC acceleration, and personal AI agents. No hype, no BS.
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Episode Summary Dave and Dan make the case that developers are no longer getting paid to write code — and explain why that's actually better news than it sounds. Drawing from real client work across Fortune 500s and one-
Episode Summary Dave and Dan break down how Shipwright, their open-source autonomous coding agent, stacks up against Devin AI — a $26B-valued competitor. They cover the key differences: open source vs. black box, runs in
Episode Summary Dave and Dan tell the origin story of App Vitals — from LiveKit AI-voice tutorials to an AI-transformation consultancy to shipping their own open-source autonomous coding agent. They unpack the 37signals
Episode Summary Major announcement: Dave and Dan are open-sourcing Shipwright, the autonomous coding agent they've been building since November. It takes you from PRD to production deployment with no human intervention ~
Episode Summary Dave and Dan pull back the curtain on the autonomous coding agent they built — an agent that lives in the cloud, takes instructions in Slack, and runs a full plan-to-deploy pipeline 24/7. In the last seve
Episode Summary If AI handles the coding, then being an engineer means planning and reviewing — the work of staff and principal engineers. But that breaks the career ladder: how does anyone become senior when the junior
Episode Summary Dave and Dan get candid about the most uncomfortable question in software right now: is my career still safe? Dan recounts a literal "therapy session with Claude" that exposed his 20-year sense of job sec
Episode Summary Org-wide AI transformation keeps failing — not because the tech doesn't work, but because trying to move 200 engineers at once turns into a slog. Dave and Dan break down what they see in the field: tool s
Episode Summary Anthropic is taking the gloves off. The VC-subsidized era of essentially-free AI agents is ending: OAuth tokens lose Open Cloud coverage, Claude Code Max plans are getting throttled for autonomous workloa
Episode Summary Dave and Dan dig into service readiness — the industry calls it "harness engineering" — and why testing just moved to the #1 spot of their 13 repo-readiness pillars. Before you let agents ship code in the
Episode Summary Dave and Dan announce a reshaping of their AI adoption work: org-wide SDLC transformation over three months wasn't moving the needle, so they're switching to embedding in a single team — even a single rep
Episode Summary Dave and Dan look three months down the road: autonomous coding went from "watch every line" to "Claude is basically an employee" in six weeks. They share their Anthropic wishlist, the hygiene automations
Episode Summary Dave and Dan riff on how they used Claude Code to build the entire AppVitals business — marketing site, internal SaaS replacements, time tracking, invoicing, even this podcast — and ask why non-technical
Episode Summary The Velocity Lab's first-ever guest interview. Dave and Dan sit down with Brian Jones (Tahoe Digital), a non-technical founder who has built multiple AI-native businesses without writing a single line of
Episode Summary Engineering leaders have been sitting on the same migrations for years — monolith to microservices, ORM rewrites, framework upgrades — because the cost of doing them was always 50% of the engineering org
Episode Summary Generic AI PR review agents from Copilot, Gemini, and Claude are a baseline, not a finish line. Dan and Dave break down the five things senior engineers actually look for in a PR — and why a custom review
Episode Summary AI transformation isn't a tooling problem. It's an organizational one. Dave and Dan dig into why bringing in AI without cutting bureaucracy, top-down processes, and the people who create them just gets yo
Episode Summary Dave and Dan walk through the questions a board or executive will ask about AI — from inventory and tooling to ROI, accountability, and competitive risk — and what answers actually hold up. Pro tip: if yo
Episode Summary Dave and Dan break down the upfront infrastructure work required before a single repo is ready for autonomous programming. They walk through the full prep checklist — monorepo structure, lazy-loaded docs,
Episode Summary Dave and Dan share what they're seeing in the field this week: non-software engineers — in marketing, sales, customer service, and data — are getting massively accelerated by Claude Desktop and MCP server
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