How Fast Is AI Actually Changing Everything? | Jamu Kakar, Valet

The world of software has changed more in the last year than the previous twenty. AI is the reason why. What does that mean for the people building in it? From agent permissions to software craft to what the next 16 years could actually look like, this episode gets into the practical realities of building in the agentic era from someone who has been doing it since 1999. In the fifth episode of Choose Your Stack, recorded at the MCP Dev Summit in New York City, Ryo Koyama sits down with Jamu Kakar, co-founder of Valet, a cloud built for agents that lets enterprises create and run agents defined entirely by prompts. Jamu breaks down why giving agents a CLI creates real security risks, why the craft of software development isn’t dying but transforming, and why despite his moments of doomerism, he believes AI is opening up a range of creative experiences for humans that we can’t yet imagine. 0:35 What is Valet? 1:55 MCP vs CLI: How Fast Is the Agentic Era Moving? 4:28 Anthropic Skills and MCP: Finding the Right Primitives 6:01 Better Models vs Better Prompting: What Actually Drives AI Productivity? 8:07 Is Cloud Infrastructure Ready for AI Workloads? 10:05 How to Get Real Efficiency Gains from AI 12:03 Why Human Connection Still Matters in an AI World 12:43 Growing Up Without Knowing a World Before AI 15:02 Hot Take: AI Will Unlock a New Era of Human Creativity Are you building for the world that exists today or the one coming next?