Using AI Agents To TRULY INCREASE...

Using AI Agents To TRULY INCREASE Software Engineering Productivity | David Yanacek In The Engineering Room Ep. 45

The Engineering Room with Dave Farley by Dave Farley
S1 · E45
May 3, 2026
01:15:25

Episode notes

Hosted by Dave Farley - co-author of Continuous Delivery (Jolt Award winner), author of Modern Software Engineering, and inventor of the Deployment Pipeline.

David Yanacek is a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS and a lead advisor on the Agentic AI team, having played a foundational role in the development of DynamoDB and CloudWatch. He is currently a primary driver behind the Kiro IDE and Amazon’s operational agents, specializing in building and operating resilient, high-scale distributed systems.

David and Dave talk about the transition from simple AI code completion to autonomous agentic development and the fundamental engineering principles are more critical than ever in an era of AI-generated code.

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