HeyJaredThe Velocity Lab
Dave O'Dell and Dan McAulay work inside engineering organizations every day, helping them ship faster with AI — not in theory, but inside their actual teams.
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Why Google Can't Move Fast (And Two Guys With Six Agents Can) (opens the original)
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DHH spent 13 months calling AI slop. Now he orchestrates agents. Dave and Dan on why companies with the best engineers and unlimited resources still can't move fast, and why the bottleneck is process, not talent.
The Model Doesn't Matter Anymore (Here's What Does) (opens the original)
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Open source caught up to Sonnet on paper, but Dave and Dan still won't switch. Why they default to Sonnet over Opus, what you're really paying Anthropic for, and the 0k-per-engineer model-spend rule of thumb.
I Was Dead Set Against This Feature (Then I Shipped It) (opens the original)
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Dave was dead set against building a Human-in-the-Loop mode for Shipwright. Then Dan shipped it overnight using agents. Now Dave's a convert. The on-ramp that eases AI-nervous teams onto autonomous coding.
The System Beats the Model (opens the original)
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Dave and Dan argue the harness beats the model: a disciplined system around the LLM outperforms chasing the latest, priciest model — and it's what makes AI spend and quality controllable.
Adopt Autonomous Coding Now, Or Find a New VP of Engineering (opens the original)
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Dave and Dan now tell every client — solo founder to Fortune 500 — to adopt autonomous coding now. Why it's a CEO call, Shipwright vs Devin, and why developers get paid to plan, not to write code.
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