Spec Driven Development, Workflows, and the Recent Coding Agent Conference

March 31

59 mins

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Jens Bodal is a Senior Software Engineer II working independently, focusing on backend systems, software architecture, and building scalable solutions across client projects.

This One Shift Makes Developers Obsolete // MLOps Podcast #366 with Jens Bodal, Senior Software Engineer II, Independent

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// Abstract

AI agents are shifting the role of developers from writing code to defining intent. This conversation explores why specs are becoming more important than implementation, what breaks in real-world systems, and how engineering teams need to rethink workflows in an agent-driven world.

// Bio

Jens Bodal is a senior software engineer based in Edmonds, Washington, with nine years of experience building developer tooling, internal platforms, and web infrastructure. He spent seven years as an SDE II at Amazon, working on teams including Amazon Games Studio and the AWS Events Management Platform. His work has focused on developer tooling, CI/CD systems, testing infrastructure, and improving the developer experience for teams operating production services. He is particularly interested in developer experience and the growing ecosystem of local tools that help engineers build and run AI systems on infrastructure they control.

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Website: https://bodal.dev https://github.com/jensbodal

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Specification vs Code