The Velocity Lab

By Dave O'Dell and Dan McAulay

Dave O'Dell and Dan McAulay work inside engineering organizations every day, helping them ship faster with AI — not in theory, but inside their actual teams. Each week they share what they're seeing i... more

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The Velocity Lab episodes:

April 04, 2026Building a System to Build Code
Episode Summary
Dave and Dan share how they shipped 254 pull requests in 7 days using AI agents Sully and Bodhi — with only about 10 hours of human effort combined. They unpack the key unlock (getting out of the terminal and into Slack), how they accidentally broke their own planning rules and recovered, and how adding metrics and learning loops turned a chaotic experiment into a real production system.
Key Topics
254 PRs in 7 days: how autonomous agents maintained 40 PRs/day even on weekends

Getting out of the terminal — why Slack became the unlock for async AI collaboration

How two agents with the same model developed different personalities through memory

Skipping the planning phase, chaos, microservices, and Wednesday night recovery

Metrics as ground truth: moving from learning loops to hard numbers with PostHog

What enterprise engineering orgs need to do right now (break your workflows)
Notable Quotes
"You should be breaking your workflows right now. You should be experimenting. You should not hold on to any legacy workflows."

"We have two pull requests in the last 20 minutes, and Dan and I are sitting here talking. We did not do anything. It is just our bots out there working."
About The Velocity Lab
Dave O'Dell and Dan McAulay work inside engineering organizations every day helping them ship faster with AI. No hype, no BS — just what's working in the field.
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18min
March 28, 2026 EP003 - Is Code the Next Abstraction Layer
Programming languages have always built on top of each other. With agentic coding, is the knowledge of code itself going to disappear? Dave and Dan debate whether software engineers will need to know programming languages in five years, and what harness engineering means for the future.
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15min
March 28, 2026 EP002 - This Week in Claude Code
Claude Code updates for March 27, 2026. Dave demos voice mode in the CLI, remote control sessions from your phone while walking the dog, and the 1 million token context window that somehow still is not enough.
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12min
March 28, 2026 EP001 - The Velocity Trap
Why giving every engineer access to every AI tool does not work. Dave and Dan break down the scattershot approach and why you need to focus on the entire SDLC.
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16min

FAQs about The Velocity Lab:

How many episodes does The Velocity Lab have?

The podcast currently has 4 episodes available.