Agents and Engineers

Dan and Jonathan Bown open with the talk Jonathan gave at ODSC, "Practical Agent Ops: From POC to Prod with MLflow 3.0." MLflow 3.0 arrived last summer as the first stable release built for generative AI rather than traditional machine learning, and Jonathan's team used it to build an agent for pre-enrollment students. The centerpiece of that work was evaluation-driven development. Instead of jump...

Dan and Greg open with how agentic development has changed since the early days of Copilot. At the time, Greg was at GitHub, and he saw AI mostly help with boilerplate and editor completions. Cursor-style agents were the next widely-used advancement bringing session history and integrated team-wide practices. By June 2026, capable models and harnesses are common inside engineering teams, so the ga...

Dan and Eleanor open by discussing how fast software engineering has changed. In the last six months, Eleanor's practice flipped from treating AI as a messy assistant that needs close supervision to building systems that put the agents on the path to success. She now writes essentially no code herself, arguing that the models have become good enough that her involvement mostly makes the results wo...

Dan, Angie Jones, and Demetrios Brinkman open with a discussion of the Agentic AI Foundation ("AAIF"), founded by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block in December 2025 and now home to roughly 180 member companies. AAIF recently launched an ambassador program (apply [here](https://aaif.io/ambassadors/)) and has upcoming events across the globe from [AGNTCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/agntcon-mcpco...

Dan and Ian Stokes-Rees, founder and CEO of PNI AI Studio, open by discussing the thesis of Ian's company: an opinionated stack of open-source tools wrapped in agentic AI so business analysts, managers, and finance teams can get the capabilities of a senior data scientist without learning Python, SQL, or R. Ian's primary target is financial services, where an estimated 200+ million weekly Excel us...

Dan and Greg discuss Revise Robotics, where Greg serves as founding engineer building robotic systems that refurbish discarded corporate laptops for donation. The episode opens with a description of how AI vision models allow robots to navigate unfamiliar BIOS screens and unpredictable laptop states dynamically — a capability that wasn't feasible a few years ago. Greg reflects on how LLM-powered v...

Welcome to Agents and Engineers: The podcast about Agentic AI and Software Engineering. I'm your host, Dan Gerlanc. Each episode is a conversation with people whose daily lives most intersect with AI and agentic systems.  These are the people building the agents we interact with every day, like Claude and Codex. They are the engineers building software in a radically new way, by written spec and p...