SIGNAL//SYNTH
Software Engineering

We now have Kerr’s Law (Interview)

aired Nov 04, 2026 · 147.0m
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Summary

I'm Adam Stachowiak, Editor-in-Chief here at Changelog. What if it's your team's ability to understand what it built?.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, know, including: I'm Adam Stachowiak, Editor-in-Chief here at Changelog.

Key takeaways
  1. 01What if the real bottleneck in AI-assisted engineering is not the model?
  2. 02The limit to how fast you can build and scale is how well you keep your team's mental models in sync with reality
  3. 03Yes, this week I'm talking to Dave Kerr, creator of Hacker Laws and author of Effective Shell, about building with agents without losing the plot
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