What does an agentic SDLC actually look like?

What does an agentic SDLC actually look like?

Ryan welcomes Suneet Malhotra, Senior Manager of Test Engineering at Motorola Solutions, to chat about building end-to-end agentic SDLC pipelines using MCPs, using Cohen’s kappa to evaluate multiple LLMs-as-judges, and how you can improve requirements by shifting QA left through a specification enrichment stage immediately after the design phase. Episode notes: You can learn more about Suneet’s five-agent SDLC (and see the companion code) on his GitHub [https://github.com/SuneetMalhotra].  Connect with Suneet on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/suneet-m/] and see more of his work on his website [https://suneetmalhotra.com/].  Congrats to user Sanjay [https://stackoverflow.com/users/1421110/sanjay] for winning a Great Question badge for asking What does it mean to fork on GitHub? [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24939843/what-does-it-mean-to-fork-on-github]. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Solving integration woes with a hackathon

Ryan welcomes Meryll Blanchet,  Director of Engineering for Adobe Brand Visibility, to chat about Adobe’s recent acquisition of Semrush, how Adobe Brand Visibility was born from Semrush’s AI visibility product and Adobe’s LLM Optimizer, and how Adobe used a three-day internal hackathon instead of a large-scale infrastructure integration to quickly deliver value to customers.  Episode notes:   Adobe Brand Visibility [https://business.adobe.com/products/brand-visibility.html] is a GEO software that helps companies improve their AI visibility, citations, and share of voice. You can preview the new product here [https://play.bv.now/org/demo-org/overview]. Connect with Meryll on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meryllblanchet/].  Congratulations to user patti_jane [https://stackoverflow.com/users/3399468/patti-jane], who won a Stellar Question badge for asking Setting PATH environment variable in macOS permanently [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22465332/setting-path-environment-variable-in-macos-permanently]. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Your tokenmaxxing is not valuemaxxing

Ryan is joined by Coder’s Rob Whiteley to chat about why tokenmaxxing isn’t proving real value and just triggering Goodhart’s Law, how release speed and PR merges can help you measure agentic outcomes with or without a human-in-the-loop, and what the democratization of skills means for junior developers and the talent pipeline.  Episode notes: Coder [https://github.com/coder] is a self-hosted platform that lets you securely run cloud development environments and AI coding agents on your own internal infrastructure.  Connect with Rob on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwhiteley/]. Today’s shoutout goes to an Unsung Hero badge winner, user Red.Wave [https://stackoverflow.com/users/6385640/red-wave]! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

How to be fearlessly AI native

Ryan welcomes McLaren Stanley, Senior Principal Engineer for Amazon Stores, to discuss what it actually takes to make teams AI native, why agentic engineering is shifting code bottlenecks downstream to testing and deployment, and why robust validation is essential to build trust and enable “fearless commits.” Episode notes: You can learn more about how Amazon’s frontier teams became AI native on the AWS blog [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-frontier-teams-are-reinventing-ai-native-development/].  Connect with McLaren on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmclarenstanley/]. Congrats to user o11c [https://stackoverflow.com/users/1405588/o11c] for winning a Populist badge for answering Pythonic way to count the number of trailing zeros in base 2 [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40608220/pythonic-way-to-count-the-number-of-trailing-zeros-in-base-2].  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Your MVP doesn’t need a Kubernetes cluster

Ryan welcomes Anurag Goel, CEO and co-founder of Render, to discuss why most startups shouldn’t start by managing their Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. They discuss how frustration with spinning up nodes at Stripes led him to build a company, a future where your application itself may allocate its own compute, and why DevOps jobs aren’t going anywhere.  Episode notes Render [https://render.com/] calls itself the cloud for builders, intuitive infrastructure for scale.  Connect with Anurag at anurag@render.com [anurag@render.com].  Congrats to Populist badge winner Hovercraft Full Of Eels [https://stackoverflow.com/users/522444/hovercraft-full-of-eels] for bringing the knowledge to How can I disable System.out for speed in Java [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9882487/how-can-i-disable-system-out-for-speed-in-java/9882559#9882559]. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].