Changelog & Friends – Episode #86

Of agents & agency

with Amal Hussein

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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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Chapters

1 00:00 Let's talk! 00:38
2 00:38 Sponsor: Heroku 02:43
3 03:21 Big features & Friends 02:37
4 05:58 Did something go wrong? 04:08
5 10:06 Amal's journey 04:09
6 14:15 Her time at Stripe 02:37
7 16:52 Her time at Cisco 02:29
8 19:21 Amal the disruptor 02:37
9 21:58 Silent sacking 03:03
10 25:01 Sponsor: Depot 02:20
11 27:22 Where she works now 08:02
12 35:24 How she found Istari 03:23
13 38:47 Moving to a different platform 02:10
14 40:56 Istari agents 03:38
15 44:35 Every deployment target 01:31
16 46:05 Do agents work today? 03:49
17 49:55 Agentic coding 01:19
18 51:13 Sponsor: Retool 03:01
19 54:14 Amal's AI feelings journey 02:39
20 56:53 Jerod's agentic coding opinion 04:09
21 1:01:02 Humans out of the loop? 01:20
22 1:02:22 Jerod is basic 01:17
23 1:03:39 Software is hard tho 01:58
24 1:05:37 Cheering the demise of engineers 04:04
25 1:09:41 We've been a bottleneck 04:32
26 1:14:13 Vibe coding gold rush 00:56
27 1:15:09 Revenge of the juniors 04:46
28 1:19:54 A basic analogy 00:59
29 1:20:53 It's just a job 01:28
30 1:22:21 Amal had a baby! 05:52
31 1:28:14 Scaling out 01:31
32 1:29:45 Don't wait 03:22
33 1:33:07 Why wait? 03:18
34 1:36:25 Bye, friends 00:25
35 1:36:51 Closing thoughts 01:01

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