Episode 65 - Mike Coutermarsh

About this episode

Mike Coutermarsh discusses the potential of AI in handling software development tasks and the trade-offs of leaving big companies for impactful work.

Your database is slow, your Sentry is screaming, and the backlog is full of “we’ll fix it later.” What if an AI agent handled the boring but high-impact work while you slept and just opened a clean pull request for review the next morning? We’re joined by Mike Coutermarsh, a software engineer who helped build GitHub Actions and later left GitHub for PlanetScale. We talk candidly about the trade-offs: walking away from big-company comfort, choosing impact over feeling like a cog, and learning...

People in this episode

Host: Drew Bragg

Guest: Mike Coutermarsh

Topics covered

• AI in software development
• GitHub Actions
• impact over comfort
• software engineering
• database performance

Keywords

• AI agent
• GitHub Actions
• software engineer
• database
• pull request

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GitHub, PlanetScale