#753: Amazon Bedrock Mantle and Developing at the Speed of AI

#753: Amazon Bedrock Mantle and Developing at the Speed of AI

From AWS Podcast by Amazon Web Services

January 26, 2026 · 56 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of AI-assisted coding on software development, featuring insights from Joe Magerramov on achieving significant increases in code throughput and necessary infrastructure changes.

In this episode, Simon speaks with Joe Magerramov (VP & Distinguished Engineer) to explore the transformative impact of AI-assisted coding on software development workflows. Joe shares his team's real-world experience achieving a 10x increase in code throughput using agentic development, but warns that simply bolting AI agents onto existing practices is like "adding a turbocharger to a car with narrow tires and old brakes." We dive deep into the critical infrastructure changes needed to sustain high-velocity development, including the mathematics of bug probability at scale, innovative testing approaches inspired by aviation industry practices, and the evolution of CI/CD pipelines that can handle dozens of commits per hour rather than per day. The conversation reveals why the biggest opportunity isn't just writing more code faster, but using AI to make previously impractical engineering practices economically viable—from comprehensive end-to-end testing with fake dependencies to rapid feedback loops that prevent the entire development pipeline from grinding to a halt when issues arise. https://blog.joemag.dev/2025/10/the-new-calculus-of-ai-based-coding.html

People in this episode

Host: Simon

Guest: Joe Magerramov

Topics covered

  • AI-assisted coding
  • software development workflows
  • code throughput
  • infrastructure changes
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • engineering practices

Keywords

  • AI
  • software development
  • code throughput
  • bug probability
  • testing approaches
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • engineering practices

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon Web Services, aviation industry

Products: Amazon Bedrock Mantle

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