The Agentic Review

About The Agentic Review

The Agentic Review by Qodo is where technology and engineering leadership meet to unpack real-world lessons from teams adopting AI into their workflows, exploring the gap between high-speed AI coding and the importance of building a culture that enables trust and governance in AI software development. Hosted by Qodo Co-founder & CEO Itamar Friedman and AI Developer Relations Lead, Nnenna Ndukwe, the show brings together engineering and AI industry leaders for candid, engineering-first conversations about code quality and human oversight in the era of AI software development.

Publisher

Qodo

Category

education · news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Apr 2026

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

11 of 12 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Your Ops Team Pays the Price for AI Adoption

   Thoughtworks' Zichuan Xiong discusses with Itamar Friedman and Nnenna Ndukwe how AI adoption dramatically increases operational costs and advocates for an operations-first SDLC.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Is AI Making You an Average Engineer?

   Technical Fellow Liz Fong-Jones discusses with hosts Itamar Friedman and Nnenna Ndukwe how AI impacts engineering teams and the trade-offs of increased pull request volume.

3. 

   3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What Engineering Organizations Get Wrong About AI Adoption

   Emilie Schario, VP of Engineering at Anaconda, shares with Itamar Friedman and Nnenna Ndukwe on The Agentic Review how engineering organizations often mismanage AI adoption, impacting software quality.

4. 

   19 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Deterministic Governance for Enterprise AI Systems

   Nirmal Jingar explains how deterministic governance and AI guardrails are crucial for enterprise AI success, highlighting legacy system modernization and AI literacy.

5. 

   5 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Building the AI Software Factory

   Host Alex Xu interviews AI expert Dr. Anya Sharma about establishing robust quality assurance and developer experience within an AI software factory to prevent technical debt.

6. 

   22 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why AI Control is the New Security Standard

   Host Alex Thompson interviews AI security expert Dr. Evelyn Reed on establishing AI control as the new security standard by gaining visibility into shadow AI.

7. 

   2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Beyond the PR Bottleneck: Scaling Engineering Velocity with AI Governance

   Software engineering pioneer Paul Duvall and host [Host Name] explore how AI governance and deterministic guardrails overcome PR bottlenecks to scale engineering velocity.

8. 

   18 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Software Development Is Still a Team Sport, Even With AI

   Host Angie Jones interviews industry experts on how AI enhances software development as a team sport, emphasizing human judgment and tailored tool stacks for quality.

9. 

   20 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Developers Are Sleepwalking Through the AI Revolution

   Itamar Friedman and Nnenna Ndukwe interview Microsoft's Scott Hanselman on why developers must understand code to navigate the AI revolution effectively.

10. 

    20 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Closing the Gap: AI Agent Hype and Production Reality

    Host Alex Xu interviews Dexter Horthy, CEO of HumanLayer, about the real-world challenges and lessons learned from implementing AI agents in software production.

11. 

    20 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

    You're Not a 10x Developer. You're Just Typing Less.

    Host Alex Banks interviews Matthew Makai, Founder of Plushcap and Creator of Full Stack Python, about agentic tools and maintaining architectural foundations to combat technical debt.

12. 

    30 Apr 2026

    The Agentic Review Trailer

    The Agentic Review by Qodo is where technology and engineering leadership meet to unpack real-world lessons from teams adopting AI into their workflows, exploring the gap between high-speed AI coding and the importance of building a culture that enables trust and governance in AI software development. Hosted by Qodo Co-founder & CEO Itamar Friedman and AI Developer Relations Lead, Nnenna Ndukwe, the show brings together engineering and AI industry leaders for candid, engineering-first conversations about code quality and human oversight in the era of AI software development.

Inside a recent episode

Your Ops Team Pays the Price for AI Adoption

Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But at the work level, efficiency level, for sure, we definitely see the benefit of everything. But I think the most important things ai changes in the industry is not the efficiency game i don't think of the really efficiency case it changed the definition of the job entirely every time we try to sell a ai solution for operation where i have to prepare a case for that change right and people are The clients were asking about the savings, the efficiency gain and everything to prove there is a case to deploy. I realized like after two years, we are preparing those case. If you consider the entire cost, job per job cost, yes, we're saving like 80% of time of preparing that document or resolving that ticket. […]

Who has been a guest on The Agentic Review

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• Zichuan Xiong
• Liz Fong-Jones
• Emilie Schario
• Nirmal Jingar
• Paul Duvall

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

23 ratings

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