DOP 342: Your Company Documentation Is Useless for AI

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   E345 · 8 Apr 2026 · 39 min

   DOP 345: From Chat Prompt to Working Software with Kiro

   #345: Vibe coding works fine until your project gets complicated. That's the gap Amit Patel and his team at AWS built Kiro to fill. The tool launched with about six people in mid-2024, hit GA around October 2025, and the team still fits in a single room -- maybe a seven-pizza team by Darin's math. The core idea is spec-driven development, but not the kind where business analysts disappear for five years and come back with a document nobody needs anymore. Amit's version: you tell the agent what you want in a chat prompt, it writes the spec for you, and you iterate on it. Twenty minutes of…

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   E344 · 1 Apr 2026 · 54 min

   DOP 344: KubeCon EU 2026 Review

   #344: Kubernetes is boring now. That's the whole point. KubeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam -- likely the biggest KubeCon ever at more than 13,000 attendees -- made one thing extremely clear: the container orchestrator is done being interesting on its own. Every keynote, every new sandbox project, every vendor announcement pointed the same direction. AI. Inference. Agents. NVIDIA donated a DRA driver for GPUs to CNCF. Google open-sourced their cluster autoscaler and shipped a DRA driver for TPUs. Red Hat brought LLM-D for disaggregated inference. NVIDIA contributed the KAI Scheduler for AI…

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   E343 · 25 Mar 2026 · 46 min

   DOP 343: Your APIs Were Never Built to Be the Front Door

   #343: Here's the thing about your company's APIs -- they were built for your own engineers to use inside your own software. Nobody designed them to be the front door. But that's exactly what's happening. Matt DeBergalis, CEO of Apollo GraphQL, makes a pretty compelling case that AI agents are turning internal APIs into the actual interface between companies and customers. Not the website. The APIs themselves. And most of them aren't ready for that. At all. Think about what happens when you point a model at a typical REST API. GitHub's API returns hundreds of fields for a single repository…

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   E371 · 7 Oct 2026 · 30 minNew

   DOP 371: Should You Vibe Code Your Own CRM?

   #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. Eddie's contact information: LinkedIn:…

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   E370 · 30 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

   DOP 370: Will AI Replace QA Testers?

   #370: Will AI replace QA testers? Three years ago, manual testers were told to learn automation or find another job. Now the automation engineers are hearing the same thing about AI. Same speech, new audience. Here's the thing. Nobody can test everything. Somebody still has to decide what quality means for your product and which workflows can't break, and your team is shipping ten times the code it used to. The conveyor belt got faster. You still have two eyes. In this episode, we speak with Shubha Govil, Chief Product Officer at Sauce Labs, about why the testing roles stay but the work…

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   E369 · 23 Sep 2026 · 49 min

   DOP 369: Vibe Coding Without the Slop

   #369: Vibe coding is great until it isn't, and the until part usually shows up fast. Ten different ways to calculate sales tax. An agent that switches programming languages in the middle of a request. One team on NodeJS, another on Python, and nobody with a rule about either. So who's supposed to stop that? Turns out that's a job now. Somebody has to tell the agents what they can and can't do, encode it, and then prove it held. In this episode, we speak with Dan Fernandez, Vice President of Product for Developer Services at Salesforce, about harness engineering, what actually counts as slop,…

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   E368 · 16 Sep 2026 · 54 min

   DOP 368: The AI Productivity Paradox

   #368: You're faster with AI. Your teammates are faster with AI. More tickets closed, more deployments going out than a year ago. So why can't anybody in the building answer a simple question: are we shipping more value? Jeff's take is that the bottleneck didn't go away, it moved. Code got cheap. Deciding what to build, why, and whether it actually worked did not. That's not an engineering problem anymore. It's a product problem. In this episode, we speak with Jeff Keyes, Field CTO at Allstacks, about where the bottleneck went once AI made coding cheap, and why product people have to pick up…

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   E367 · 9 Sep 2026 · 41 min

   DOP 367: Zero-Human Companies Still Need Humans

   #367: Every few weeks another pitch lands. A company with no employees, just a founder and an army of AI agents. Zero headcount. Zero payroll. Then the AI CMO hallucinates a marketing campaign and somebody has to catch it. Viktor runs the numbers on his own one-person operation. He can review maybe five things a night. Want a hundred a day? That is nineteen more people. The math is not kind to the pitch. In this episode, Darin and Viktor discuss why zero-human is the new serverless, and where the humans actually go once the agents are doing the work. YouTube channel:…

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   E366 · 2 Sep 2026 · 53 min

   DOP 366: How to Prevent npm Supply Chain Attacks

   #366: You ran npm install this morning. Maybe you ran it a dozen times. Every one of those pulled down a dependency tree you have never read, from a registry that spent years in maintenance mode, and then executed whatever preinstall and postinstall scripts happened to be in there. On your laptop. With your keys sitting on disk. Trusted publishing, provenance, staged releases - all good, all recent, and none of it stops a package from shipping malware. In this episode, we speak with David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet, about defense in depth for the npm ecosystem, and why seven days of patience…

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    E365 · 26 Aug 2026 · 48 min

    DOP 365: What the DORA AI ROI Report Really Says

    #365: A bad engineer with a laptop is much worse than a bad engineer with a calculator. Now hand that engineer AI. DORA's ROI report puts it politely - AI without engineering excellence just scales your problems. Except it's not more of everything. It's more of whatever you were already doing, and there's a statistical chance that what you're doing is bad. Your agent already read your flaky tests and decided that's the house style. So what do you measure now? Viktor's answer: every technical metric you've got is gamed. ROI of AI-assisted Software Development report…

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