In this episode of Shipping Excellence, Andrew Duncan sits down with Christopher Garvis (former AWS manager, worked on CDK) to unpack a core reality of the AI era:

AI makes speed cheap, judgment priceless.

They start with the practical: how experienced builders are using AI day to day, why “skills” (constrained context + tools) are emerging as the next standard beyond agents, and what happens when heavy integrations like MCP feel slow or token expensive.

From there, the conversation shifts to the business implications. If AI compresses the time to ship, teams hit decision points faster, with less time to react. That makes judgment and ownership the highest leverage skills. They discuss why AI amplifies whatever process you already have, why “vibe coding” often hits a ceiling wit ...