TokenMaxxing!: Agentic Software Development with Bob Farzin

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Bob Farzin about using teams of agents for software development and related experiences in the tech community.

In this episode we invite back our friend Bob Farzin to discuss our personal experiences with using teams of agents to write software, and we try to parse out the experiences we're seeing on the interwebs, including Steve Yegge's GasTown and Wes McKinney's discussion of agentic development in the context of Brooks's _Mythical Man Month_. "Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system"Welcome to Gas Town — Steve Yegge's original essayThe Future of Coding Agents — Yegge's follow-upGas Town on...

People in this episode

Hosts: Erik Aker, Mike Mull

Guest: Bob Farzin

Topics covered

• agentic software development
• coding agents
• team collaboration
• personal experiences
• software writing

Keywords

• agentic development
• software agents
• coding
• team dynamics
• Steve Yegge
• Wes McKinney

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gas Town

Books & works: Mythical Man Month

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