About this episode
Adam Jacob discusses the impact of AI agents on software development and the evolution of automation with his product Swamp.
This week I'm talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. We discuss how he went from an 18-person team down to five and shipped Swamp 900 times in four weeks, why he brought User Acceptance Testing (UAT) testing back from the 90s, why software architecture (and domain-driven design) suddenly matters more than knowing how to write code, the live demo where I pointed Swamp at my Proxmox box and watched it write its own automation (blew my mind!!), and why he'll never accept a pull request to Swamp, ever.
People in this episode
Guest: Adam Jacob
Topics covered
- AI agents
- software development
- User Acceptance Testing
- software architecture
- domain-driven design
- automation
Keywords
- AI
- automation
- software development
- User Acceptance Testing
- domain-driven design
- Swamp
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: System Initiative
Products: Swamp
Places: Proxmox
More episodes of Changelog & Friends
- Finale & Friends · March 2, 2026 · 1h 46m
- Han shot first · February 13, 2026 · 2h 0m
- It's a renaissance woman's world · February 6, 2026 · 1h 43m
- Natural born SaaS killers · January 30, 2026 · 1h 13m
- The state of homelab tech (2026) · January 24, 2026 · 2h 3m
- Kaizen! Let it crash · January 17, 2026 · 1h 41m
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Changelog & Friends podcast page.