Ep 269 Alex Bunardzic - From Code Fetish to AI Harness: Architecting Trust in an Agentic World

This was a great conversation with Alex Bunardzic. Alex has built platforms and teams for decades, and has been at the forefront of driving agile, iterative software development with a systems thinking mindset.  We talk about how AI agents are changing software development, and everything from the end of "code fetishism" to new risks of nondeterministic agents that can fake outputs. We cover practical practices like test-driven development, failure-first engineering, draft-flag deployment, and the need for architectural invariants. Alex introduces a new AI guild focused on ethics, technical excellence, and innovation, and describes a platform (AI Harness) to enforce safety and immutability while enabling productive agentic workflows.  Big thanks to Alex for a fun and very inspiring conversation!  Check out the AI Craftspeople Guild here: https://aicraftspeopleguild.github.io/ and make sure to connect with Alex at his website https://alexbunardzic.com This podcast is made possible by GTM Delta and TechForward.