The AI Native Dev - from Copilot today to AI Native Software Development tomorrow

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Liz Fong-Jones: 2x the PRs, 1.5x the Incidents

2026-09-2949:38

Honeycomb went from 30 to 70 merged pull requests a day in three months. The catch: automated code review, not code generation, became the real bottleneck of software automation. Liz Fong-Jones, Technical Fellow at Honeycomb, explains why incidents still rose 1.5x, how their internal bot Autobot now reviews every PR, and why AI amplifies whatever org you already have. What we cover: – How automated code review lets humans focus on design, not trivial bugs – Using a decision model like Jev to...

Dexter Horthy: Why We Stopped Trusting AI to Write the Plan

2026-09-2256:12

HumanLayer CEO Dexter Horthy on why his team's bet on spec driven development nearly wrecked their own codebase, and what changed his mind about reviewing AI-written code. Dexter walks through the "YOLO pull request" experiment that ran for months before the codebase became unusable, the "dumb zone" that limits how much context you can hand a model, and why he now believes there will always be alpha in reviewing something. What we cover: – How HumanLayer's "read the plan, skip the code" expe...

AWS's Marc Brooker: Specs, Not Code, Are the Hard Part

2026-09-1656:49

Spec-driven development is reshaping what software engineers actually do all day, and Marc Brooker, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS, has read 3,000 to 4,000 postmortems that convinced him the code was never the hard part. In this episode of The AI Native Dev, Marc explains why testing and specification are now the real engineering work, why metastable failures keep taking down systems that look perfectly healthy, and why he still won't let AI write a single word of his blog. What we cov...

You Don't Need Juniors to Code. Hire Them Anyway.

2026-09-0852:22

Coding agent reliability isn't a model problem, it's a gates problem. Ran Aroussi, creator of yfinance and founder of Automaze, argues that an "agentic workflow" is a contradiction in terms, and that the only thing standing between you and full autonomy is deciding where a human still signs off. He also thinks you stopped needing junior developers for their coding skills about a year ago, and that hiring them anyway is the only way the industry gets its next generation of architects. What we...

850 PRs a Week: How Tessl Runs a Software Factory

2026-09-0251:17

The software factory that put up 850 pull requests in a week, with 85 to 90% of them handled by agents end to end. Tessl's Head of Product Dru Knox on how it actually got built, why it started with skills rather than automation, and the two things nobody expects a factory to change. Guy Podjarny digs into the skills-to-loops-to-factory path, and what breaks when you skip a step. What we cover: – What a software factory actually is, and how it differs from a pile of disconnected automations –...

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The AI Native Dev - from Copilot today to AI Native Software Development tomorrow