The Coinbase Playbook: How to Roll Out AI to 1,000 Engineers Without It Backfiring

This episode explores how Coinbase's engineering team, under Senior Director Chintan Turakhia, tackled an "adapt or die" mandate to rewrite a core product into a social app within months, despite previous AI tool failures. Listeners will learn about their aggressive AI adoption strategy, including a "leader-on-the-metal" approach and a "PR speed run" that intentionally broke GitHub to force a cultural reset and leverage AI as a force multiplier.