What Engineering Organizations Get Wrong About AI Adoption

🔗 Try Qodo for free → https://qodo.ai Are we shipping better software, or just more of it? Emilie Schario, VP of Engineering at Anaconda and Co-founder of Kilo (acquired by Anaconda in July after growing from 0 to 3M+ developers in 16 months), joins Itamar Friedman and Nnenna Ndukwe on The Agentic Review podcast to discuss what actually has to change inside engineering organizations once AI tools show up. Chapters: 00:00 Intro and Emilie's background 00:01:37 Better software, or just more software? 02:35 Distributing AI tools doesn’t mean driving adoption 07:07 Use parenting as your AI playground 12:25 From token maxing to outcome maxing 17:14 A better metric than AI spend 24:22 How to actually prepare an organization for AI 28:52 Should humans still own every PR? 34:51 Autonomous agents are interns 37:58 Don’t reach for AI when a script will do 39:21 Build for the whole spectrum of AI maturity 💡 What You'll Learn: → Why more AI-generated code isn’t automatically better software → The real reason AI tool rollouts stall inside engineering organizations → How to move from token maxing to outcome maxing → Why model freedom matters more than model loyalty → Where humans should still own the loop → How to design for the full spectrum of AI maturity on your team About Qodo Qodo is the AI code review platform built for engineering teams that ship at scale. As AI-generated code becomes the norm, Qodo provides the quality layer between "AI wrote it" and "production-ready" — analyzing full codebase context, enforcing team-specific standards through a living rules system, and catching critical issues, breaking changes, and duplicated logic before they merge. With 2M+ installations and 4M+ PRs reviewed every year, Qodo gives engineering teams the precision and confidence to accelerate without compromising quality. Start free at qodo.ai. #AgenticReview #SoftwareEngineering #AICoding #DevOps #Qodo #AICodeReview #CodeQuality #DeveloperTools #ContinuousIntegration #CICD #DevSecOps #PaulDuvall #AgenticEngineering #EngineeringLeadership