Act of Intelligence

Ajay and Andrew get pulled off their notes and into a bigger question: as coding assistants get better at running themselves, what is left for us to do? Fresh off a week of hands-on time with Claude Code and Codex, they compare the limits, the harnesses, and the agents that spawn their own agents, then land somewhere surprisingly practical: the age of the "digital handyman," where anyone can build...

If coding is "solved," is software engineering? Ajay Medury (software engineer) and Andrew Sierota (systems engineer) pick up where Episode 1 left off and get into the part that isn't solved: judgment. They trade notes on why weekly usage limits have quietly become the real project budget, what it's like to build a sharded Minecraft world solo as both product manager and principal engineer, what A...

Welcome to Act of Intelligence — a new podcast about AI tools, workflows, and the philosophy of building with them, hosted by Ajay Medury and Andrew Sierota. In this pilot, a software engineer and systems engineer compare notes on what it's actually like to build real software with AI coding agents like Claude Code. They get into plan mode and context management, the explosion of open-source "memo...