Waves of Innovation by re:cinq

The episode begins with a candid look at Dominic Warchalowski and his evolution from a staunch AI skeptic to a lead engineer driving a massive velocity increase at Odevo. Dominic recounts his early and frustrating experiences with isolated AI prompts, which frequently yielded hallucinations and eroded his trust. A significant pivot occurs when he is introduced to Claude Opus within a modern IDE en...

The conversation begins with an inside look at Odevo, a massive Swedish property technology company managing residential assets globally. Tomasz outlines the early days of their AI adoption, characterized by an internal AI team building bespoke document sorting tools and a secure internal GPT instance. However, a significant pivot occurs when casual Slack debates about engineering productivity evo...

The episode begins by addressing a stark new reality for engineering teams: AI agents are writing code at an unprecedented pace, leading to pull requests that are 150 percent larger and review times that have doubled. Deejay and Jaime Jorge unpack this sudden shift, noting how the friction of software development is being removed faster than ever before. However, this frictionless environment intr...

The Opening Context The conversation begins with a critical look at how engineering organizations measure success in the era of AI. Lauren Peate CEO of Multitudes joins Deejay to unpack their recent mixed methods research on the real world impact of agentic coding on software delivery. The duo quickly establishes that the headline grabbing promises of AI often clash with the lived realities of dev...

The conversation begins by tracing the professional trajectories of Daniel Jones and Benedict Stemmelt, two practitioners who found common ground in the shared Slack channels of the AI-native movement. The opening context establishes a relatable pivot for senior leaders: the rediscovery of the joy of creation. Both hosts describe how agentic tools allow architects and CIOs to bypass the friction o...

The episode opens with urgency as Daniel Jones and Mike Gehard reflect on a fortnight of agentic breakthroughs—specifically "dark factories" where humans are barred from the inner workings of code production. Daniel cites milestones from OpenAI and Strong DM, noting the industry has moved past simple completion tools into autonomous, multi-agent systems. Mike connects his chemical engineering root...

The episode opens with Amy Heineike outlining Tessl's core mission: building documentation registries optimized for coding agents. Daniel Jones notes the pervasive frustration of API hallucinations, where models invent idealized but non-existent methods that waste developer cycles. Amy explains that models often struggle with APIs too new or too old for their training sets, creating a critical nee...

In this week's episode of Waves of Innovation , host Daniel Jones reconnects with "Big" Rob Edwards, a Google Cloud expert, DORA contributor, and long-time collaborator. Their history goes back a decade to the trenches of early cloud platform delivery, giving them a shared language for the massive shifts occurring in the industry today. Rob brings a rare dual perspective to the podcast. By day, he...

Why do so many digital transformations hit a wall? You can have the fastest cloud platform or the most advanced AI agents, but if you ignore the humans responsible for using them, you are destined to struggle. In this episode of Waves of Innovation , host Daniel Jones reconnects with his former business partner and long-time collaborator, Dan Young . Ten years ago, they set out to transform compan...

What happens after you go "all in" on AI coding assistants? In this episode, Deejay catches up with Elliott Beatty , host of the Agentic CTO podcast, and VP of Engineering at Fruition, to review his organization’s aggressive adoption of agentic AI. Several months ago, the goal was full automation. Today, the reality is more nuanced. While velocity is up tremendously, the team has hit a new ceiling...

Why do AI projects feel so unpredictable? If you've ever been frustrated by a machine learning project that shows "nothing, nothing... then suddenly, something," this episode is for you. We move past the hype to explore the "fuzzy" reality of building with AI and why it’s a fundamentally different discipline from traditional software engineering. Discover why you can't just apply Agile sprints to...

How do you implement cutting-edge AI in one of the world's most regulated and secure environments? In this episode, Deejay talks to Mike Gehard, Director of R&D at Rise 8, a custom software development firm that is all-in on developing AI solutions for the US federal government. Mike shares how his team is tackling the "nightmare difficulty" of using generative AI for both internal software de...

In this episode, we sit down with Nick Gushchin, founder of the Swiss AI Chatbot Factory, to hear his incredible story of career transformation. After nearly 18 years in the banking industry, Nick embarked on a journey to teach himself Python, using ChatGPT as his primary tutor. Nick shares how a chance conversation on an airplane introduced him to the coding capabilities of ChatGPT 3.5, sparking...

What's the most important skill for building reliable AI? It might not be what you think. In this episode, we sit down with Qamir Hussain, Head of AI at Arisa (formerly of Webio), who shares incredible insights from building AI for the high-stakes world of debt collection. He argues that a QA mindset is more critical than any other skill for an engineer in the AI space. We dive into the real-world...

Feeling overwhelmed by the new wave of AI jargon? You're not alone. In this episode, we're joined by Hannah Foxwell , a tech leader who, after feeling "bamboozled" at an AI conference, founded the "AI for the Rest of Us" community. Her mission: to help everyone, not just the deep experts, develop the "AI fluency" needed to navigate this new era. Hannah draws fascinating parallels between the curre...

What would it take to have your engineering team write almost no code by the end of 2026? That's the audacious goal tech leader Elliot Beaty set for his team after realizing the industry was at a critical inflection point. In this episode, Elliot takes us deep inside his journey of transforming a development team into an AI-first powerhouse, detailing the pivot that began with reluctance 3 and has...

Welcome to the first episode of Waves of Innovation . This podcast, and the community around it, started with a simple question: What if we could approach the next technological transformation differently this time? In this opening conversation, Pini Reznik (Author of Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation ) shares the story behind his upcoming book Waves of Innovation , th...