Ep. #82, Automating Developer Toil with Morgante Pell of Grit

About this episode

Ken and Jess chat with Morgante Pell about automating developer toil with Grit, an AI-powered agent.

In episode 82 of o11ycast, Ken and Jess chat with Morgante Pell, the visionary behind Grit, an AI-powered agent designed to automate developer toil and technical debt. The discussion covers the evolution of AI in coding, the challenges of building and deploying AI agents, the future of combining code awareness with production awareness, and Grit’s acquisition by Honeycomb.

People in this episode

Guest: Morgante Pell

Topics covered

• developer toil
• AI in coding
• technical debt
• AI agents
• code awareness
• production awareness

Keywords

• automation
• Grit
• Honeycomb
• AI

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Grit

Books & works: Automating Developer Toil

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