DevOps Paradox

#375: An agent can crank out 200 or 300 lines of code a minute. You can maybe review 40. So who's actually supposed to understand what just got merged?
Maybe nobody ever did. Did you really read every line of every PR before AI showed up? Or did you just have the time? Now the junior has an agent, the senior is buried in review, and the job looks a lot more like management than coding.
In this episode, Darin and Viktor talk about who's supposed to understand the code once AI writes it, and why that's now the senior engineer's job.
 
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#374: Your company is paying for the AI licenses, and now there's a number attached. Two to three times the output, every day, or else. Can you hit it? If they're counting lines of code, sure.
But you aren't the company. If everyone on the team gets faster on their own and the handoffs between them stay exactly the same, does anything ship sooner? Most AI today is single player. Your company probably isn't.
In this episode, we speak with Tomasz Tunguz, founder of Theory Ventures, about why faster individuals don't add up to a faster company, and what that changes for startups and the people funding them.
 
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#373: A company lays off 4,000 people the same day it posts record revenue, and the stock jumps. Is that really because of AI? Or just a really good press release?
Layoffs used to mean a company was bleeding cash. Now they show up next to record quarters, and AI gets the credit. Doesn't matter much if you're the one who got rapidly reallocated. You still need a job.
In this episode, Darin and Viktor talk about AI as the current layoff scapegoat and what to do when you end up on the wrong side of it.
 
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#372: Your company bought everyone a ChatGPT or Claude license. Problem solved, right? A few people never touch it. Most use it like a drive-through window -- type a question, grab the answer, leave. And the ones using it all day for emails assume that makes them good at it.
But think about it. Your kid had to pass a written test before driving the car. Your team got the keys and a login.
In this episode, we speak with Chris Daigle, founder and CEO of ChiefAIOfficer.com, about what actually turns daily AI use into real skill.
 
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#371: You've got an idea, two friends, and a coding agent. Why would you pay for a CRM when you can vibe code one this weekend? Day one, it looks great. You love it.
Then day 30 shows up. Somebody else needs access, a new feature breaks an old one, and you're asking yourself where this thing is even hosted. Pretty soon you're spending more time maintaining your CRM than running your business.
In this episode, we speak with Eddie Cliff, VP and GM of SMB and Growth Products at Salesforce, about when to build and when to buy.
 
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