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Making AI agents work in your team 🤖 — with Dennis Pilarinos

Refactoring Podcast • Episode 71

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Today's guest is Dennis Pilarinos, who is the founder and CEO of Unblocked and a long-time developer tools expert, having founded BuddyBuild and having served as a director at Apple, Amazon and Microsoft.

With Dennis, we talked about the latest trends in software development. We discussed why more tokens are not translating into more productivity, how to guarantee code quality with AI and what's the role of context in making your agents succeed. We also explored how the Unblocked team is doing it, navigating their setup and a few use cases about how their shipping features in production.


🥇 Interview Summary

If you are a 🔒 paid subscriber 🔒 you will find my own summary of the interview below.

It’s the 5-minute, handcrafted takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.

Here is the agenda for today:

  1. 🔥 More tokens, less progress

  2. 🔍 Code review is the new bottleneck

  3. 🧠 Context is the missing piece

  4. ⚙️ How Unblocked runs internally

  5. 🚀 What’s next: remote agents and Unblocked Code

Let’s dive in 👇


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