The Human Edge: Why Brownfield Codebases Need Mob Programming, Not Just AI Vibes

Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom and Ola Hast discuss the evolution of their software engineering practices past continuous deployment and pair engineering. The conversation continues where it left off in the previous episode and focuses on the experiments in adopting Claude Code and the reasons why they consider it good for everything else, but not coding.

Read a transcript of this interview: bit.ly/3SFb1Lu

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