After three years, Joekub is back, and this time they brought a startup, an AI agent that writes project updates in five minutes, and some very uncomfortable questions about your career trajectory.
Jakub and Joe (collectively: Joekub) reunite on Tech Waka for a wide-ranging conversation about what's actually happening at the coalface of AI-powered delivery. Joe left agile coaching to join an AI startup and hasn't looked back. Jakub is steering product and technology through the same wave from the C-suite. Between them, they've got enough delivery scar tissue to know when something is new and different.
They cover why extreme programming turned out to be a prophecy rather than a methodology. Why the spec is more important than the code now. Why your AI agent might be sandbagging its own performance to protect team morale. And the question that no one in a sprint planning meeting wants to answer out loud: if the agent is outperforming the humans, who gets the bonus?
Funny, honest, and grounded in real experience, this is what it sounds like when two people who've been around long enough to have opinions stop being polite about AI and just say what they think.
This episode is sponsored by Wires Uncrossed.