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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We also discuss: - Thinking about identities and permissions for agents - Testing cloud infra rollouts in an agentic loop, and - How we’re all citizen developers in one way or another Listen directly to the episode and be sure to rate and subscribe to the show!

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A software engineer and cloud-operations veteran, he has spent more than 20 years building teams and startups and working with cloud infrastructure.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cory O'Daniel is the CEO and co-founder of Massdriver, an internal developer platform and platform orchestrator that helps teams turn Terraform, OpenTofu, and Helm into governed self-service infrastructure.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On the latest episode of the Agents + Engineers podcast, Cory O’Daniel and I discuss how the role of software engineer changes when people who aren’t traditional software engineers, or, as we’ll call them, citizen developers, can, with an agent and enough patience, create useful software.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“How do we get to the point where I can say the business analyst, Margaret in accounting, Tony in sales, Jana in marketing, why can't they deploy 10 times a day?”

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In this episode, we discuss: - How Stephanie went from doing a PhD in physics and working for NASA to joining a tech company - How Stephanie uses AI to create fun and educational games for her kids - The agentic pre-mortem as a strategy

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stephanie Jarmak is an AI Engineer at Omni working on multi-agent orchestration and code intelligence. She is also a research affiliate for NASA's Science Explorer (SciX) and a maintainer of Gas City, an open-source orchestration builder for multi-agent coding workflows.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’ll also discuss ways to customize your own Gas City deployment.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How does Gas City, a popular open source framework for building your own software factory, manage its own development? In the latest episode of the Agents and Engineers podcast, we’ll talk with one of the maintainers of Gas City on how she, and the project, approach agentic development.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eric is also an open-source software developer known for leading pyjanitor and nxviz and contributing to NetworkX and PyMC. Listen directly to the episode and be sure to rate and subscribe to the show!

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eric is a Senior Principal Data Scientist at Moderna, where he leads the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (Research) team. Previously, he conducted biomedical data science research at the Novartis Institutes for BiomedicalResearch and earned his doctorate in Biological Engineering from MIT.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a unique episode of the podcast in that Eric demoed some of his workflow. The full video episode with the demo is on YouTube. We live-narrate the analysis so you can follow along with audio too.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On the latest episode of the Agents + Engineers podcast, Eric Ma and I discuss Eric’s approach to agentic data science, specifically with Marimo pair.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Knowing how to code like software developers, you know, basic refactoring, documenting, and testing, right? If a data scientist knows how to do that, then the chance of them taking their work. into a mode where that you can have high leverage becomes really high.”

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We also discuss: - Why individual gains from AI coding often fail to become organizational gains - Andrew’s technique of Mise en Place + Beads for agentic dev - The value of a humanities education in an agentic world Listen directly to the episode and be sure to rate and subscribe to the show!

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Andrew is a GTM Engineer at LinearB and the host of Dev Interrupted. He has written extensively about agentic engineering, including his technique of Mise en Place.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On the latest episode of the Agents + Engineers podcast, Andrew Zigler and I discuss the importance of continue experimentation to improving agentic workflows.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“If you're not throwing a bunch of things away every week and starting over or adding new stuff or simplifying ever like every week, then you're probably not iterating fast enough”

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We also discuss: - What do programming language designers do when most code is being written by agents? - How Julien refocused SkipLabs towards AI - The use of formal methods with AI Listen directly to the episode and be sure to rate and subscribe to the show!

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Julien Verlaguet is the founder and CEO of SkipLabs, the company building Skipper, a closed-loop coding agent. He created Skip, a reactive programming language, and led the design of Hack, the language Meta developed to run its codebase at scale.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On the latest episode of the Agents + Engineers podcast, Julien Verlaguet and I discuss where software engineering is headed with the release of increasingly capable models.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“The job of software engineering is going to become much, much, much more interesting. You're basically going to be left with the interesting problem, the hard stuff, the stuff that requires taste.”

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

- How Thomas’s work in grad school building models of the brain led him to Bayesian statistics - Effectively embedding agents in tools like Slack or Discord to democratize access to company information - What parts of doing data science still require talking with humans

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In October, Thomas is also teaching a course, Master Agentic Data Science, where he’s teaching hands-on some of the things we discuss in the episode. Hugo Bowne-Anderson, who was on the most recent episode of the podcast, is also one of the instructors.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thomas Wiecki is a co-author of PyMC and the founder of PyMC Labs. He holds a PhD in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University and previously served as VP of Data Science and Head of Research at Quantopian Inc.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is not the say that data science failed universally, more that the amount of engineering resources needed to deliver data science in production was often beyond the grasp of all but the largest organizations.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

On the latest episode of the Agents + Engineers podcast, Thomas Wiecki and I discuss how agentic AI has finally allowed for data science to deliver on its original promises of business value.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“A premise we had like, I don't know, 15 years ago, we're like, oh yeah, data science is going to be like this amazing thing that's like going to deliver all this business value. I don't think we have really delivered. I think for a large part we've failed, right?”

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

- The premise of using “dark factories,” where developers cannot see the code, for agentic engineering Hugo and Doug are teaching a course, Build Production Ready AI Agents for the Enterprise. Listeners of the show can get $150 with the code “agentsengineers” or by following this link:

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

- The current directions for agentic search, how it’s most commonly implemented, and what the bleeding edge looks like. - What’s the first thing companies should do when looking to improve agentic search.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Doug is an expert in search and has worked at companies like Shopify, Reddit, and Wikipedia. He’s written books including Relevant Search and AI Powered Search. We also discuss:

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hugo is an independent data and AI consultant who has advised teams building AI-powered systems at Netflix, Meta, and Amazon. He also hosts *Vanishing Gradients*, where he explores cutting-edge developments in data science and artificial intelligence.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Doug Turnbull and I discuss how using agents, it’s now feasible for all engineers to build search specifically for their application.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

- How to create handoff packets between different model sizes for efficient delegation - The state of the art for running local models - What agentic engineering means for Python development Listen directly to the episode and be sure to rate and subscribe to the show!

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’ve seen a lot written about this topic lately. Yes, you need to verify code works regardless of how it’s created. But are you willing to submit an agentically developed PR to the Linux kernel without reading the code? We also discuss:

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

On the latest episode of the Agents + Engineers podcast, Paul Everitt, Developer Advocate at JetBrains and I discuss whether humans will still be reading the code the agents create.

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Dan Gerlanc @dgerlanc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“We're going to have humans in the loop, and humans are going to need to read code and sign off on it before shipping it. And readability will still matter, and Python remains the hands-on winner for that.”

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