The Agentic Review

Are we shipping better software, or just more of it? Emilie Schario, VP of Engineering at Anaconda and Co-founder of Kilo (acquired by Anaconda in July after growing from 0 to 3M+ developers in 16 months), joins Itamar Friedman and Nnenna Ndukwe on The Agentic Review podcast to discuss what actually has to change inside engineering organizations once AI tools show up.

Nirmal Jingar discusses deterministic governance and why wrapping AI in guardrails is essential for production. We explore the need to modernize legacy systems before adding AI, the importance of AI literacy at the board level, and why organizational tribal knowledge remains a critical gap for LLM context.

Building a reliable software factory requires more than just generating code. This conversation focuses on the importance of quality assurance and the evolution of developer experience in the era of autonomous agents. Learn how to implement rigorous entry and exit gates to ensure that AI productivity does not come at the cost of technical debt.

This episode explores the transition from synthetic data to AI security and explains why visibility into "shadow AI" is the first step toward building a robust control plane. Learn how to steer a fleet of thousands of agents while maintaining low latency and high accuracy in production environments.

Software engineering pioneer Paul Duvall joins the show to discuss why traditional pull request processes are breaking. This episode delves into quality checks and the development of deterministic guardrails to manage the surge of AI-generated code in enterprise environments.

Angie Jones on agentic tools, repo-level guardrails, and building software you can trust. This discussion explores the necessity of tailored tool stacks and why human judgment remains the non-negotiable anchor for scaling quality. Learn how junior developers, robust testing, and team-wide standards integrate into an accelerated AI-driven engineering workflow.

AI agents in production and code quality governance are critical for software engineering leaders. Learn context engineering and 12 factor agents with Dexter Horthy, CEO of HumanLayer. This episode explores hard lessons from the trenches of AI-assisted development and why the industry is swinging back to manual code oversight to save failing architectures.

Explore the intersection of software craftsmanship and artificial intelligence with Founder of Plushcap and Creator of Full Stack Python, Matthew Makai. This episode examines the reality of using agentic tools in production and why maintaining your architectural foundation is a critical defense against technical debt. Learn how to stay ahead of market trends while preserving the expertise that makes a great engineer.

In this episode of The Agentic Review podcast, hosts Itamar Friedman and Nnenna Ndukwe are joined by Scott Hanselman, Vice President and Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft, to discuss why reading and understanding code still matters in the age of AI agents, how to avoid the uncanny valley of AI-assisted development, and the key strategies for maintaining engineering standards while scaling productivity.

The Agentic Review by Qodo is where technology and engineering leadership meet to unpack real-world lessons from teams adopting AI into their workflows, exploring the gap between high-speed AI coding and the importance of building a culture that enables trust and governance in AI software development. Hosted by Qodo Co-founder & CEO Itamar Friedman and AI Developer Relations Lead, Nnenna Ndukwe, the show brings together engineering and AI industry leaders for candid, engineering-first conversations about code quality and human oversight in the era of AI software development.