I am the mother of the agents

We finally come back to the mic to talk about what everyone is talking about: LLMs at work. Urban has stopped handwriting code, Monica is delegating debugging to Claude between meetings, and we both wonder out loud whether our processes, our hiring, and honestly our jobs are quietly being rewritten while we ride the wave.

Mentioned

• Destroying the Machines, with Brian Merchant
• The engineering management memory crisis

Quotable moments

• [10:00] "How can I trust you if you're not able to commit to the fact that, sorry, I don't know about this." — Monica
• [18:24] "Who is going to review 20,000 lines of code in a language they're not expert of? Looks good to me territory." — Urban
• [23:55] "Nobody knows. Remember that they're all making stuff up." — Monica
• [35:32] "You are all going to become engineering managers... what you're going to have at your disposal is a certain amount of agents that you can spin up and tell them to orchestrate between each other." — Monica

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• You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it.

Where to find Monica on the internet:

• Website: monicag.me
• Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social
• Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online
• Github: @nirnaeth
• Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth

Where to find Urban on the internet:

• Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai
• Bluesky: @urbanhafner.bsky.social
• Github: @ujh
• Blog: urbanhafner.com

The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).