Commit & Push
Commit & Push
Podcast Description
Great software doesn’t build itself. Behind every breakthrough product is a team making the right calls—on architecture, hiring, and the trade-offs that shape what gets pushed to prod.
The Commit & Push podcast is where technology meets the human side of software development. I’m your host Damien Filiatrault, Founder and CEO of Scalable Path, and in this podcast we’ll go beneath the surface to explore the strategies, decisions, and hard-earned lessons that drive successful digital products. From hiring top developers to embracing emerging tech without losing the human touch, we cut through the noise and focus on what works.
Whether you’re a CTO, engineering leader, or hands-on developer, you’ll get real-world insights from industry veterans, deep dives into emerging technologies, and a no-BS look at what it takes to build and scale great software.
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The podcast covers a variety of themes including software development strategies, emerging technologies, and lessons from industry veterans. For example, episodes delve into why AI projects often fail, explore hiring practices for top developers, and unpack the importance of user experience design, making complex topics accessible for listeners.
Great software doesn’t build itself. Behind every breakthrough product is a team making the right calls—on architecture, hiring, and the trade-offs that shape what gets pushed to prod.
The Commit & Push podcast is where technology meets the human side of software development. I’m your host Damien Filiatrault, Founder and CEO of Scalable Path, and in this podcast we’ll go beneath the surface to explore the strategies, decisions, and hard-earned lessons that drive successful digital products. From hiring top developers to embracing emerging tech without losing the human touch, we cut through the noise and focus on what works.
Whether you’re a CTO, engineering leader, or hands-on developer, you’ll get real-world insights from industry veterans, deep dives into emerging technologies, and a no-BS look at what it takes to build and scale great software.
- How Coder turns your laptop-centric workflow into a centralized, cloud-based development platform that provisions compute, GPUs, tools, and credentials as code.
- Why code completion is no longer the “end game,” and how developers are moving from line-by-line autocomplete to truly agentic workflows and background tasks.
- How Anthropic runs Claude Code in a walled-off workspace (with its own tools, Terraform-defined context, and MCP-powered toolbelt) and why that pattern points to the enterprise future.
- The two essentials for productive agents: solid infrastructure (VMs/containers, GPUs, access to Git, browsers, etc.) and rich, structured context about their environment.
- System prompts vs. user prompts: how hidden “agent personalities” work under the hood, and why conflicting instructions can quietly tank an agent’s effective IQ.
- Practical patterns for startups vs. big companies: cursor + Coder for smaller teams, and Bedrock-backed stacks (Q, Cursor, Claude Code) for enterprises that need governance and data control.
- Why agent adoption follows a “bathtub curve”, junior and principal engineers love them, mid-levels are skeptical, and how to design prompts, tools, and workflows that flatten that curve.
- A realistic roadmap to long-running agents: when it makes sense to let a model refactor codebases or decouple a front end from its backend over hours instead of minutes.
- Why “English is the new programming language,” what that means for vibe coders and systems thinkers, and how non-engineers are becoming their team’s internal app builders.
- How to think about agents like summer interns: what it takes to train them, where they shine, and why your culture around mentoring junior talent predicts your AI success.
- “Agents are just a gen-AI call in a loop—what matters is the tools and context you give that loop.”
- “Most people deployed naked agents, starved them of tools, and then decided agents ‘aren’t ready.’”
- “Claude Code reads its own Terraform file on boot. It literally learns who it is and where it’s running.”
- “If you’d never hire summer interns because they’re ‘too much work,’ you’re going to hate agents.”
- “A developer isn’t just a coder anymore—they’re a systems thinker who can break problems down and speak clearly in plain English.”
- “We may end up with fewer traditional software engineers—but many more developers building software.”
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