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EPISODE · May 3, 2026 · 1H 15M

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

from The Engineering Room with Dave Farley

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.------------------------Only Patreon supporters get to see the full length video episodes of "The Engineering Room” Sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/c/continuousdeliveryLinkedIn David Yanacek - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-yanacek/?isSelfProfile=falseEqual Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0📖 "The Software Developers’ Guidebook Amazon ➡️ https://amzn.to/4f9ozFK ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/softwaredevelopersguidebook📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipeline

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