AI Agents for Software Engineers. Claude Code Deep Dive | Ep. 7 with Carl Rannaberg

Carl and I talked deeply about CLI-based AI agents, specifically Claude Code, how CLI AI agents are more composable than IDE-based agents like Cursor, spec-driven development, making codebases agent-native, and, last but not least, which skills should we hone as software engineers, because our profession is not going anywhere, but we need to adapt. Super interesting conversation, hope you enjoy!

Oh, and if you want to work together with Carl and me, we are hiring in Pactum, feel free to check out https://pactum.com/careers/

00:00:00 Introduction & Current Coding Workflow 00:10:40 Junior vs Senior Engineers with AI 00:27:21 Spec-Driven Development & Tasks 00:46:31 CLI Agents vs IDE Tools (Cursor) 00:52:13 MCP vs CLI Tools & Composability 00:57:20 Claude Code Features: Slash Commands & Hooks 01:12:32 Making Codebases Agent-Native 01:31:40 AI Adoption in Organizations 01:44:16 CI/CD Pipelines & AI Automation

Thanks for listening!

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit log.mapforengineers.com