[ { "broke": [], "quotes": [], "num": "00", "slug": "00-build-in-public", "date": "2026-10-01", "youtube": "jhQdNCpBtnI", "summary": "Danail and Vitaliy on why they started the show, what a software dark factory is, and the question every guest will get.", "title": "We are building our podcast in public", "released": true, "page": "https://atle-site.netlify.app/episodes/00-build-in-public/", "text": "https://atle-site.netlify.app/episodes/00-build-in-public.md", "hasTranscript": false }, { "broke": [ { "text": "Agents opened 25 pull requests at once and took a server down.", "t": 1546 }, { "text": "An agent left alone for two days. Code that didn’t work, tickets that didn’t matter.", "t": 345 }, { "text": "The bottleneck moved: review, then CI, then the manual confirmation on every deploy.", "t": 136 } ], "quotes": [ { "text": "They are not hype.", "t": 203 }, { "text": "We like to call it agile. It’s quite waterfall.", "t": 1687 }, { "text": "You need structure around agents.", "t": 345 }, { "text": "You can keep the stuff you love, and you can just give away everything else.", "t": 1344 }, { "text": "Everybody’s experimenting with software factories, but I don’t think anyone has the right setup now.", "t": 3217 } ], "num": "01", "slug": "01-vladimir-petrov", "guest": "Vladimir Petrov", "company": "Cobalt Code", "companyUrl": "https://cobaltcode.ai", "role": "Has written code for 30 years. Builds a software factory at Cobalt Code.", "date": "2026-10-01", "duration": 3280, "youtube": "8ko36BavICI", "lights": { "rooms": [ "intent" ], "quote": "You need to end up with someone that owns the product to say, what we want and what we don’t want.", "t": 2350 }, "shorts": [ { "id": "iNY78orj27U", "title": "AI writes the code. Why does shipping still take days?" }, { "id": "KrUtwG530j0", "title": "Agile but waterfall" }, { "id": "tr5n0YbqvFE", "title": "Build it in 5 minutes, throw it away" }, { "id": "WQ-Vu9HUvzY", "title": "Rolling out AI quietly so people don't panic" }, { "id": "TCZ7sPJ0Ztk", "title": "Do AI agents need a manager?" }, { "id": "htpfSzZBtnw", "title": "Real or hype" }, { "id": "E34v0jtiXVE", "title": "What happens when AI builds faster than you can approve" } ], "summary": "Vladimir pointed agents at three months of open tickets. They opened 25 pull requests at once and took a server down. Then the bottleneck kept moving, from review to CI to the one person approving each deploy.", "title": "Your job was never to write code", "released": true, "page": "https://atle-site.netlify.app/episodes/01-vladimir-petrov/", "text": "https://atle-site.netlify.app/episodes/01-vladimir-petrov.md", "hasTranscript": true }, { "broke": [ { "text": "The factory created 15 tickets about improving itself. Nobody owned them.", "t": 950 }, { "text": "It took over the marketing and sales board and started commenting on the website.", "t": 879 }, { "text": "The worst case to plan for: an agent deletes the database.", "t": 2224 } ], "quotes": [ { "text": "Here’s the tools. Engineering, figure it out.", "t": 1102 }, { "text": "Oh, no, yeah, sorry, like we didn’t mean to.", "t": 879 }, { "text": "How fast can I restore it? What’s my window of data loss?", "t": 2224 }, { "text": "That’s basically automating disaster.", "t": 2343 }, { "text": "I don’t care about the 100%.", "t": 2741 }, { "text": "The decision is more and more about, like, what features should we not build.", "t": 2798 } ], "num": "02", "slug": "02-patrick-debois", "guest": "Patrick Debois", "company": "Tessl", "companyUrl": "https://tessl.io", "role": "Gave the industry the word DevOps. Co-wrote the DevOps Handbook. Runs software factories at Tessl.", "date": "2026-10-15", "duration": 2957, "youtube": "FnCnv2tGsK0", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/2hMgKkh4giYXdn6kykZarc", "lights": { "rooms": [ "owner" ], "quote": "Now, can you do it without? Yes. But can you do it without ownership? No.", "t": 1183 }, "shorts": [ { "id": "lZerx9f_cNw", "title": "AI factory opened 15 tickets about improving itself" } ], "factories": [ "Tessl" ], "summary": "Tessl ran a hackathon and ended up with five or six factories. One of them took over the marketing board. Another morning, the factory had filed 15 tickets about improving itself, and nobody owned them.", "title": "Is the future of software engineering a factory?", "released": true, "page": "https://atle-site.netlify.app/episodes/02-patrick-debois/", "text": "https://atle-site.netlify.app/episodes/02-patrick-debois.md", "hasTranscript": true }, { "broke": [], "quotes": [], "num": "03", "slug": "03-milko-slavov", "guest": "Milko Slavov", "company": "felan.ai", "companyUrl": "https://felan.ai", "role": "Planned to run his startup as one person and a team of agents. Then he hired a human engineer.", "date": "2026-10-29", "lights": { "rooms": [ "intent", "architecture", "release" ], "quote": "In some cases it will have a lot more light rooms inside. In some cases it will have just a few." }, "factories": [ "Felan" ], "summary": "Milko doesn’t think you can build a business on a factory that is completely dark. He keeps three rooms lit.", "title": "A lot more light rooms inside", "released": true, "page": "https://atle-site.netlify.app/episodes/03-milko-slavov/", "text": "https://atle-site.netlify.app/episodes/03-milko-slavov.md", "hasTranscript": false }, { "broke": [], "quotes": [], "num": "04", "slug": "04-boris-paskalev", "guest": "Boris Paskalev", "company": "LogicStar", "companyUrl": "https://logicstar.ai", "date": "2026-11-12", "summary": "Recorded. Out on 12 November.", "title": "Episode four", "released": false, "page": "https://atle-site.netlify.app/episodes/04-boris-paskalev/", "text": "https://atle-site.netlify.app/episodes/04-boris-paskalev.md", "hasTranscript": false } ]