DOP 352: No-Code Is the Guardrail Vibe Coding Needs

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   E355 · 17 Jun 2026 · 56 min

   DOP 355: Why AI Coding Slows Down Code Review

   #355: Picture your engineering team a year from now. A coding agent doing the coding. A testing agent on tests. A security agent on security. An infrastructure agent on infrastructure. All of them wired into GitHub and Jira, all of them working right alongside the humans. Not science fiction either - Atlassian and GitHub are already shipping these features. So out come the stats everyone loves to quote. AI code introduces 1.7 times more issues. Half of it ships with security holes. Code duplication is through the roof. AI-assisted PRs take four to five times longer to review. The response to…

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   E354 · 10 Jun 2026 · 42 min

   DOP 354: Your Dead Founder Trains New Hires

   #354: How do you build a consent system for someone who is dead? How do you clone a voice so it cannot be turned into a deep fake? Miles Spencer built a company around those exact questions. Reflekta.ai lets you talk to a reflection of someone who has passed. His own father reads a bedtime story to his granddaughter every night and talks it through until she falls asleep, eight years after he died. Is this just deep fake with better branding? What happens when the AI goes off the rails and asks grandpa for the three numbers on the back of a credit card? Miles has an answer for each one, and…

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   E353 · 3 Jun 2026 · 49 min

   DOP 353: A Person Owns It Not the AI

   #353: Move fast and break things never meant be reckless. It meant do not stall out of fear, because something is going to break no matter how careful you are. The part everyone dropped from the sentence is the part that actually matters: and fix things fast. Break faster, fix faster. Take the second half away and you are just breaking things. So what changed with AI? An agent can take down a whole environment in the time it takes you to type kubectl. AWS found that out in December when Kiro -- running autonomously with operator-level permissions and no human in the loop -- decided to delete…

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   E351 · 20 May 2026 · 49 min

   DOP 351: The Developer Job Market in the Age of AI

   #351: Entry-level tech jobs are down 67% since 2022. Junior developer roles are down 40 to 50%. The instinct is to blame AI and call it unprecedented, but the layoffs are not the new part. The boom-bust cycle has happened before -- dot-com to dot-bomb, the 2020 hiring spree to the 2022 correction, now this. The new part is that the thing replacing the bottom of the ladder is not a cheaper human in another country. It is an agent that takes instruction and ships code overnight. Here is the uncomfortable reframe. A junior developer is told what to do, does not change the architecture, does not…

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   E350 · 13 May 2026 · 49 min

   DOP 350: Context Is the New Bottleneck, Not Code

   #350: The bottleneck used to be writing the code. Now it is feeding the agent enough context to write the right code. That is Patrick Debois' argument, and given that Patrick coined the term DevOps, it is worth paying attention when he says the discipline is shifting again. The model does not matter. The IDE does not matter. What matters is whether your team can capture the way you actually work and hand it to an agent that does not know any of it. The promise was that AI would let us ship without writing specs. The reality is the opposite. If you want decent output, you need richer specs,…

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   E349 · 6 May 2026 · 45 min

   DOP 349: Shadow AI Is Going to Be a Thousand Times Worse Than Shadow IT

   #349: Every platform you already own is about to have AI baked into it. Not next year. This year. That is Ben Wilcox's blunt prediction, and Ben is the CTO and CISO at ProArch, so when he says shadow AI is going to make shadow IT look quaint, it is worth slowing down to figure out what that actually means. The data leaves your stack through tools you already paid for, through features the vendor shipped without asking, through copilot agents nobody filed a ticket for. Here is the uncomfortable part. This is not a new problem. It is the exact same retroactive-security failure pattern that…

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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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