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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Signup to Generate a PitchDave 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.
Recent episodes include "Your Agent Can't Delete What It Can't Touch" (19 October 2026, 10 minutes), "Why Everyone Needs an AI Personal Assistant" (12 October 2026, 14 minutes), and "Three Years From Now: The Tech Is Ready, Your Org Chart Isn't" (28 September 2026, 15 minutes).
The Velocity Lab publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 15 minutes.
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Episode #42
Episode Summary Two years ago an AI mistake meant a misformatted screen. Now it can mean a security leak or a nuked database. Dave and Dan explain why agent security is the new DevSecOps, and why an autonomous agent in...
Episode #41
Episode Summary Dave's advice to anyone, technical or not, is to stop treating AI as a chatbot and get a real AI personal assistant. He and Dan break down what separates the two: memory that learns you, an agent running...
Episode #40
Episode Summary A listener asked where App Vitals will be in three years. Dave and Dan agree the technology is already capable of near-total automation — what is actually slowing everything down is human organizations...
Episode #39
Episode Summary Dave and Dan run a two-person AI consulting company where the back office has quietly disappeared into automation: time tracking, invoicing, payroll, the weekly newsletter, and this very podcast all run...
Episode #38
Episode Summary Real AI adoption doesn't stall on tooling — it stalls on two human prerequisites: trusting the AI, and trusting your team. Dave and Dan unpack why AI transformation is genuinely hard, how they stopped...
Episode #35
Episode Summary Dave O'Dell and Dan McAulay argue that the software engineer's role isn't disappearing, it's changing dramatically, and that raw coding ability is no longer what separates a viable developer from an...
Episode #34
Episode Summary Thirteen months ago DHH called AI "slop" and a fancy autocomplete. Today he runs his own agent-orchestration project and reviews PRs from an inbox. That turnaround is the jumping-off point for a bigger...
Episode #33
Episode Summary Open-source models have caught up to Sonnet on the benchmarks, so does it still matter which model you use? Dave and Dan argue the model stopped being the differentiator a while ago. They break down why...
Episode #32
Episode Summary Dave was dead set against building a Human-in-the-Loop mode for Shipwright — then Dan shipped it overnight using autonomous agents, and Dave came around completely. This episode is the story of why they...
Episode #31
Episode Summary Teams are finally staring at their AI bills — and the reflex is to use the LLM less. Dave and Dan make the opposite case: the answer isn't a cheaper model or less AI, it's a system . The harness around...
Episode #30
Episode Summary A month ago, Dave and Dan weren't giving this advice. Now they're telling every client — from solo founders to the Fortune 500 — the same thing: adopt autonomous coding immediately. The technology...
Episode #29
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...
Episode #28
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...
Episode #27
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 #26
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 #24
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...
Episode #23
<p><b>Episode Summary</b></p> <p>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...
Episode #22
<p><b>Episode Summary</b></p> <p>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...
Episode #21
<p><b>Episode Summary</b></p> <p>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...
Episode #20
<p><b>Episode Summary</b></p> <p>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...
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