Pete Hunt was a core React team member at Facebook, helped build Instagram's first web app, sold a company to Twitter, and now runs Dagster Labs — the open-source data orchestration company behind Dagster and Dagster Plus. Anna sat down with him to talk about what AI is actually doing to engineering teams, where it isn't helping, and how a $62M-funded company thinks about hiring, distribution, and shipping.

In this episode:

→ The two types of engineers in the AI era — and why "journey people" hate it while "destination people" love it

→ Where AI gives Dagster a 5:1 compression (and where it gives almost none)

→ Why they didn't cut hiring after raising — and what high-growth companies actually do with productivity gains

→ How they handle "slop landing in master" and the alignment work humans are inheriting  ...