Today's guest is Amelia Wattenberger, former principal research engineer at GitHub and now partner at Sutter Hill Ventures.

But she's also a product lead at Augment Code, where she developed Intent, a developer workspace for orchestrating AI coding agents and delivering complex work.

So this is a fascinating chat into the future and the present of software development with someone who has clearly been at the very frontier of this for many years.

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(01:11) Introduction

(03:26) What is "Intent"?

(09:56) Splitting agents for best performance

(12:32) Spec and subtasks

(17:46) Decision and generation

(22:15) Features, opinion and abstractions

(25:37) The note system

(27:41) Attitude is reflected in approach

(35:21) Engineers in the new era of crafting

(37:14) Managing skills applied to an agent environment

(39:46) Orchestrating agents

(45:50) The future of deep specialists

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Today's guest is Richard Hughes-Jones, a professional executive coach with more than 20 years of experience.

With Richard, we talked about how to coach tech leaders through uncertainty and everything that's going on with AI, how to navigate it, how we should think about our role, and what it means to step outside of the framework.

We also explored how to leverage AI for coaching, how to blend human and AI advice to get the best of both worlds.

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(01:08) Introduction

(02:26) Richard's journey into coaching

(04:23) Sponsor break

(05:19) Coaching without engineering background

(07:27) Most common challenges

(11:39) Helping people in uncertainty

(19:10) Good for the team Vs Good for the business

(22:13) Are frameworks limiting?

(27:10) Creating a personal framework

(31:49) Am I trying to be the hero?

(34:35) Usual questions

(39:07) AI and coaching

Link to article mentioned in the interview: https://richardhughesjones.substack.com/p/052-special-edition-what-i-learned

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Today's guest is Austen McDonald, former hiring committee chair at Meta, and author of the book, "Mastering Behavioral Interviews."

Austen, in his career, conducted more than 1,000 interviews and coached more than 200 engineers, and is here today to tell us everything about why behavioral interviews are more important than ever and how to run them right, as a candidate and as a recruiter.

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(01:02) Introduction

(01:37) Austen' interest in behavioral interviews

(06:25) Sponsor break

(07:31) Behavioral interviews as a senior or a junior engineer

(09:55) The question behind a question: signal areas

(13:09) Fails in behavioral interviews

(16:38) Decode, select, deliver

(17:15) The eight areas

(19:02) How company culture reflects in hiring

(21:59) Assessing company's culture as a candidate

(23:49) The big three questions

(29:26) Preparing for the big three questions

(37:37) Deliver a story

(40:28) Good preparation process

(43:15) Do not lie

(46:14) Recruiter side: biases

(51:42) Candidate experience with AI: value questions

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