Navigating the constant influx of AI products requires moving beyond hype and focusing on practical execution. When engineering teams adopt AI, measuring true velocity and managing runaway token costs become immediate challenges. Steve Adams, Chief Digital Officer, and Jeff Wooden, Chief Architect at Intevity, join the podcast to detail the creation of Intevity Labs: an initiative focused on building open-source tooling to solve real-world development friction. Steve and Jeff break down their latest suite of developer tools, including Sentinel, Trove, Witness, and Curtain, while highlighting the importance of security, OpenTelemetry standards, and prompt compression. They also examine the operational risks of “dark code,” the realities of story pointing in an AI world, and why organizational success relies on keeping human oversight involved in critical systems.

Join us as we discuss:

• [1:49] How Sentinel safely optimizes context management and reduces token usage by up to 70%
• [11:18] Comparing AI to pre-AI productivity and finding the time to learn and implement new tools
• [16:53] The mental load of AI workflows, dark code, and human gatekeeping
• [23:19] An exciting new OpenTelemetry tool for corralling your AI agent ecosystem and dealing with outages
  

Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:

• Sentinel
  

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