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Agentic Engineering: What Happens When AI Joins the Dev Team?
What happens when AI stops being a tool engineers use and starts becoming a member of the development team?
In this episode of Ship Happens, host Per Krogslund sits down with Scott Gale, CTO and co-founder of Fluency, to explore the rise of agentic engineering and how AI is changing the way software gets built, tested, deployed, and maintained.
22 Sept 2026
Don’t Let AI Go Rogue: Human Governance for Agentic Systems
As AI systems become more capable of reasoning, using tools, accessing data, and taking action on their own, a new question is becoming impossible to ignore: how much autonomy should we actually give them?
In this episode of Ship Happens, host Per Krogslund sits down with Justin Kuiper, Lead Architect at Future Tech, to explore the security and governance challenges of agentic AI—and what engineers can do to keep increasingly autonomous systems within safe and understandable boundaries.
25 Aug 2026
AI Changes the Bottleneck: Eric Bowman on Building the Right Thing
In this episode of Ship Happens, host Per Krogslund talks with Eric Bowman, CTO of King, about how AI is changing the fundamental constraints of software development. As AI makes writing and producing code dramatically faster, Eric argues that the bottleneck is shifting: the harder problem is increasingly deciding what to build, why to build it, and whether you're building the right thing in the first place.
11 Aug 2026
Building Search for AI, Not Humans | Saahil Jain, CTO of You.com
Search has always been built for people—but what happens when the user is an AI agent?
In this episode of Ship Happens, host Per Krogslund sits down with Saahil Jain, CTO of You.com, to explore why the next generation of search needs to be designed for machines, not humans.
24 Jul 2026
Why Enterprise AI Is Really an Infrastructure Problem | Colton Shaw, Spectro Cloud
AI models may grab the headlines, but enterprise success depends on everything surrounding them.
In this episode of Ship Happens, Per Krogslund sits down with Colton Shaw, Principal Architect at Spectro Cloud, to explore why infrastructure, security, and governance—not just model selection—will determine whether AI succeeds in production.
24 Jun 2026
Security, AI Economics, Enterprise Incentives, and Agent Infrastructure
Security, AI economics, enterprise software buying behavior, and the infrastructure powering AI agents are all evolving at the same time. But many of the biggest challenges aren't technical—they're incentives.
In this special compilation episode of Ship Happens, host Per Krogslund brings together perspectives from engineering leaders, founders, and platform experts to explore the realities behind AI adoption, security, enterprise software, and developer productivity.
From the limits of AI-powered security tools to the economics of personal data, the incentives driving enterprise purchasing decisions, and the infrastructure required to support autonomous agents, this collection of conversations examines the systems shaping modern software delivery.
Along the way, guests discuss why AI-generated code increases the need for testing and guardrails, why compliance can outweigh product quality in enterprise sales, and why the future of AI may depend on bringing algorithms to data—not data to algorithms.
10 Jun 2026
AI Coding vs. Enterprise Reality Standards, Reliability, and the Future of DevOps
What happens when AI starts writing the code?
In this special compilation episode of Ship Happens, hosted by Per Krogslund, engineering leaders, DevOps practitioners, platform engineers, and AI experts explore how coding agents, copilots, and large language models are transforming modern software delivery.
26 May 2026
Rethinking AI and Data: Incentives, Trust, and the Future of the Web with Ruben Verborgh
AI doesn’t just have an ethics problem—it has an incentives problem. In this episode of Ship Happens, Ruben Verborgh joins Per Krogslund to unpack why today’s AI ecosystem is economically unsustainable, how decentralized web standards could reshape ownership of personal data, and why smaller, controllable AI systems may outperform massive black-box models in the long run.
12 May 2026
Shipping Safely in the Age of AI: Feature Ops with Ivar Conradi Østhus
AI is accelerating software delivery—but it’s also changing the risk profile of how we ship software. In this episode of Ship Happens, Ivar Conradi Østhus, CTO and creator of Unleash, joins Per Krogslund to explore how Feature Ops helps teams ship faster and safer through controlled rollouts, feature flags, and real production feedback.
28 Apr 2026
Why CI/CD Is Broken (And How to Fix It) | Jignesh Patel, Harness
CI/CD is broken in most enterprises. Jignesh Patel explains how platform engineering, AI, and better DevOps practices can fix it.
14 Apr 2026
The Modern Web: Why Open Source Still Wins — with Brian Alvey, WordPress VIP
From the early days of blogging to the rise of AI, Brian Alvey has helped shape how the modern web works. The CTO of WordPress VIP joins Ship Happens to unpack what’s changed, what’s broken, and why open source still powers the internet’s most important innovation.
31 Mar 2026
Infrastructure Engineering: Trust, Efficiency, and Change with Kristjan Elias
Great infrastructure isn’t just about uptime — it’s about trust, ownership, and making change feel safe.
Kristjan Elias shares how Pipedrive balances platform reliability, cloud efficiency, and AI experimentation at scale.
17 Mar 2026
Systems Thinking for Modern Engineering with Sergey Katsev
Modern engineering isn’t just coding — it’s systems thinking.
Sergey Katsev breaks down how today’s internet actually works, why DNS outages still take everyone down, and what great engineering managers do differently.
3 Mar 2026
AI Coding vs Enterprise Reality — with Arun Gupta
AI can generate code faster than ever — but is it ready for enterprise‑grade software?
In this episode of Ship Happens, Arun Gupta, VP of Developer Experience at JetBrains, breaks down the gap between AI “vibe coding” and the real operational, security, and compliance demands of modern engineering teams. Arun also opens up about being laid off from Intel, rebuilding his career with discipline and experimentation, and ultimately landing his role at JetBrains through an AI‑accelerated job search.
17 Feb 2026
Squads, Standards, and Scale: Pia Nilsson on Engineering at Spotify
We all know the Spotify Model. But what does it actually look like in practice?
In this episode of Ship Happens, Pia Nilsson from Spotify breaks down how autonomy, accountability, and standardization work together to power engineering at scale. From squads and synchronization to platform tooling and AI adoption, this conversation explores how one of the world’s most talked-about engineering cultures continues to evolve.
4 Feb 2026
Playing in the AI Sandbox: How E2B Is Powering the Future of AI Agents
We all know Ship Happens. Today, we explore the world of AI sandboxes with Vasek Mlejnsky, founder of E2B. He reveals how safe, scalable execution environments are reshaping the future of AI agents. Discover the origin story, the open-source strategy, and the vision powering one of the most exciting tools in AI infrastructure today.
20 Jan 2026
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