Episode 65 - Mike Coutermarsh

Your database is slow, your Sentry is screaming, and the backlog is full of “we’ll fix it later.” What if an AI agent handled the boring but high-impact work while you slept and just opened a clean pull request for review the next morning? We’re joined by Mike Coutermarsh, a software engineer who helped build GitHub Actions and later left GitHub for PlanetScale. We talk candidly about the trade-offs: walking away from big-company comfort, choosing impact over feeling like a cog, and learning...