TED Radio Hour
Episode's summary
When every engineer can own a feature end to end with AI, who do they collaborate with? Kelsey Duncan, Senior Engineering Manager at FreeWill, shares what’s changed for her team: fewer blockers, more isolation, and open questions about what career growth looks like. We also cover moving from Cursor toward Claude Code, onboarding engineers onto AI-built repos, and why her team’s skills are named Bake and Sift.
When every engineer can own a feature end to end with AI, who do they collaborate with? Kelsey Duncan, Senior Engineering Manager at FreeWill, shares what’s changed for her team: fewer blockers, more isolation, and open questions about what career growth looks like. We also cover moving from Cursor toward Claude Code, onboarding engineers onto AI-built repos, and why her team’s skills are named Bake and Sift.
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Leading an AI-Native Engineering Team w/ Kelsey Duncan
ListenedWhen every engineer can own a feature end to end with AI, who do they collaborate with? Kelsey Duncan, Senior Engineering Manager at FreeWill, shares what’s changed for her team: fewer blockers, more isolation, and open questions about what career growth looks like. We also cover moving from Cursor toward Claude Code, onboarding engineers onto AI-built repos, and why her team’s skills are named Bake and Sift.
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Co-working With AI w/ Mike Nakhimovich
ListenedMike Nakhimovich led Airbnb’s Dev AI team through a no-mandate rollout that took agentic coding from 5% to 98% adoption. Now he’s building Hive, a place to co-work with your agents that feels more like a farm than a factory. We talk about where to keep humans in the loop, why async beats synchronous, and why 50–80% faster “in a happy way” beats 4X. Hive is in closed beta as of the release of this podcast. You can join the waitlist at friendlyai.dev Reach Mike at mike@friendlyai.dev
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Directing AI, Not Prompting It w/ Josh Penzell
ListenedDiscussion with Josh Penzell, founder of Imagination Applied, about directing AI instead of prompting it: from his work on Special Olympics’ multilingual Unified Champion Schools Inclusion Academy to why organizations should reward experimentation over time savings. Josh's LinkedIn Josh's Website Special Olympics’ multilingual Unified Champion Schools Inclusion Academy
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AI ROI for You and Your Business w/ Cora Anthony
ListenedDiscussion with Cora Anthony, an AI enablement and L&D leader, about getting real ROI from AI: for organizations, by starting with discovery and measuring time saved, and for individuals, by building skills that go with you wherever you work.
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Leading Engineers Through AI w/ Joseph Cutrono
ListenedAI makes great engineers better, good engineers great, and bad engineers worse. Joseph Cutrono, VP of Engineering with 20+ years in software, shares how he measures AI success, why non-engineers should start the coding process, and what tokens are really costing us.
