One Engineer and a Swarm of Agents? 3 VPs on What Actually Breaks

Name: Revelo
Brand: Revelo
Rating: 4.7 (130 reviews)

July 23, 2026

What happens to an engineering team when one person can run a swarm of agents? David Shen, Devin Goodsell, and Francisco Trindade came into the studio to pressure-test that idea, and they don't fully agree on the how or the when.

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Josh Anderson

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Field CTO, Revelo

Josh Anderson is Revelo's Field CTO and the host of Tech Teams Today. He is also CTO at Reclaim and co-hosts The Meta-Cast podcast, and he has spent his career building and leading engineering teams.

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The conversation moves from the easy version ("one engineer, a bunch of bots") to the parts that actually matter: where the real bottleneck lives, what breaks when 5,000 agents commit to the same repo, and how you'd shape a team for 2028 without copying Meta's headlines.

*Our Guests:*
David Shen, VP of Software Engineering
Devin Goodsell, VP of AI at Hinge
Francisco Trindade, VP of Software Engineering at Braze

*About Tech Teams Today:*

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