
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Of agents & agency (Friends)
Mar 28, 2025 · 1 hr 37 min · 94.1 MB
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Long-time JS Party panelist Amal Hussein joins Jerod to catch up on her career path, to opine on the viability agentic coding, to feel all the feelings that AI brings out of us as developers, and to share something new in her life that changes everything.
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- 0:00Let's talk!
- 0:38Sponsor: Heroku
- 3:21Big features & Friends
- 5:58Did something go wrong?
- 10:06Amal's journey
- 14:15Her time at Stripe
- 16:52Her time at Cisco
- 19:21Amal the disruptor
- 21:58Silent sacking
- 25:01Sponsor: Depot
- 27:22Where she works now
- 35:24How she found Istari
- 38:47Moving to a different platform
- 40:56Istari agents
- 44:35Every deployment target
- 46:05Do agents work today?
- 49:55Agentic coding
- 51:13Sponsor: Retool
- 54:14Amal's AI feelings journey
- 56:53Jerod's agentic coding opinion
- 1:01:02Humans out of the loop?
- 1:02:22Jerod is basic
- 1:03:39Software is hard tho
- 1:05:37Cheering the demise of engineers
- 1:09:41We've been a bottleneck
- 1:14:13Vibe coding gold rush
- 1:15:09Revenge of the juniors
- 1:19:54A basic analogy
- 1:20:53It's just a job
- 1:22:21Amal had a baby!
- 1:28:14Scaling out
- 1:29:45Don't wait
- 1:33:07Why wait?
- 1:36:25Bye, friends
- 1:36:51Closing thoughts