The Greatest Time to Build a Startup (The AI-Native Advantage)

About this episode

Daniel Jones discusses the unconventional habits and frameworks that lead to high-performing agentic development teams.

The best agentic developers throw away their agent's work without guilt, run three agents at once and only use one, and treat their AI like a junior developer they genuinely dislike. It sounds wrong. It works. Daniel Jones, Head of Product at re:cinq, has upskilled hundreds of developers across Northern Europe's largest enterprises. In this episode he joins Simon Maple to share the counterintuitive habits, hard data, and practical frameworks behind high-performing agentic development teams. ...

People in this episode

Host: Simon Maple

Guest: Daniel Jones

Topics covered

• AI development
• startup building
• agentic developers
• high-performing teams
• productivity frameworks

Keywords

• AI-native
• startup
• development teams
• productivity
• agentic development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: re:cinq

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