Where humans still matter when agents write the code
2026-10-29
The traditional GitHub-style pull request review is a waste of opportunity cost for most code changes in the agentic era. Yet simply removing it without a replacement invites complexity death spirals and unbounded product behaviour that agents cannot unwind. James McGill and Haziq Nordin join Yaniv to argue that engineers should stop reading diffs line-by-line and instead scan for architectural complexity, shift accountability to spec quality, and build new verification patchworks of end-to-end tests, fuzzing, and product review. The conversation is for any engineer or founder trying to extract real leverage from AI coding tools rather than bottlenecking them with cargo-cult process.
Applied Wizardry
Yaniv Bernstein- No. of episodes
- 4
- Latest episode
- 2026-10-29
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A podcast for engineers and technical founders about how we build with AI: the engineering behind the magic. Hosted by Yaniv Bernstein, a multi-time founder and engineering leader (PhD in computer science, ten years of engineering at Google, VP Engineering and COO at Airtasker, CTO and co-founder of Vera).