Is your AI strategy built for speed or stability? | Qodo’s Itamar Friedman

Is your team's AI strategy tailored for a fast-moving startup or a high-stakes enterprise? 

The answer could determine your success or failure. We're rejoined by Itamar Friedman, co-founder and CEO of Qodo, to break down what separates engineering teams that truly thrive with AI from those that are just experimenting, explaining why the path to success is fundamentally different for a startup that needs speed versus a large enterprise that must untangle bottlenecks.

Itamar reveals his vision for the evolution from "vibe coding" to a more mature "grounded coding" that relies on structured workflows and rich, automated context. He also points to the trend of dev platform teams as the future "agent keepers" who will own the holistic and safe implementation of AI. Itamar provides an actionable playbook for leaders: map your current processes, identify your biggest bottleneck, and find a specialized AI tool for that specific problem.

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• Workshop: The AI upgrade to your SDLC

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• Announcing the real next chapter of Windsurf
• I still care about the code
• McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’
• Meta poaches even more AI talent 
• Block launches a grant program for high impact OSS contributions to goose

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