Can your P&L survive a developer who burns hundreds of dollars in tokens for a single minor feature? While coding speed has reached a 10x breakthrough, the rest of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) remains stuck in a pre-AI bottleneck, resulting in marginal gains to actual throughput.

Idan Zalzberg, Chief Technology Officer at Agoda, joins Tech Talk to breakdown the reality of agentic workflows, the danger of "AI slop," and why the next generation of engineers must stop typing and start managing.

Tune In To Find Out:


The Tokenised Billing Trap: Why frontier models can burn hundreds of dollars on "reasonably small" tasks and the critical lack of governance tools to cap spending.


The 10x Productivity Myth: Why "vanity metrics" like lines of code are failing and why we must pivot to PR Throughput to find the real SDLC bottlenecks.


The Managerial Mindset: Why developers must move away from single-tasking and learn to direct "teams of agents" working in parallel via the cloud.


Turns per MR: A new metric to measure the "friction" between humans and AI, designed to prevent a flood of low-quality "AI slop."


The Pilot-to-Scale Strategy: How to secure C-suite trust by choosing "low-hanging fruit" with short ROI before pursuing long-term AI strategic investments.

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Can your P&amp;L survive a developer who burns hundreds of dollars in tokens for a single minor feature? While coding speed has reached a 10x breakthrough, the rest of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) remains stuck in a pre-AI bottleneck, resulting in marginal gains to actual throughput.Idan Zalzberg, Chief Technology Officer at Agoda, joins Tech Talk to breakdown the reality of agentic workflows, the danger of "AI slop," and why the next generation of engineers must stop typing and start managing.Tune In To Find Out:<ul><li>The Tokenised Billing Trap: Why frontier models can burn hundreds of dollars on "reasonably small" tasks and the critical lack of governance tools to cap spending.</li><li>The 10x Productivity Myth: Why "vanity metrics" like lines of code are failing and why we must pivot to PR Throughput to find the real SDLC bottlenecks.</li><li>The Managerial Mindset: Why developers must move away from single-tasking and learn to direct "teams of agents" working in parallel via the cloud.</li><li>Turns per MR: A new metric to measure the "friction" between humans and AI, designed to prevent a flood of low-quality "AI slop."</li><li>The Pilot-to-Scale Strategy: How to secure C-suite trust by choosing "low-hanging fruit" with short ROI before pursuing long-term AI strategic investments.</li></ul>Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.

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