Ep 33: From Engineer to Fleet Commander: Scott Breitenother on the Future of AI Coding Artwork

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Ep 33: From Engineer to Fleet Commander: Scott Breitenother on the Future of AI Coding

April 24, 2026 • Data Council • Season 1 • Episode 33

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On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, tune in to our conversation with Scott Breitenother, Co-founder & CEO of Kilo Code. Scott built Kilo Code — an open source AI coding agent platform — after watching the engineering job description quietly transform around him. His take: the engineers pulling ahead aren't writing better code. They're running better agent teams.

In this conversation, Scott unpacks what that shift actually demands — why every developer at Kilo operates like a mini CEO, why he thinks the frontend/backend divide is already dead, and why the ad hoc agent is about to become always-on. If you work in software and haven't made this mental leap yet, this one's worth your eleven minutes.

Don't miss this episode if you want a practical, ground-level view of what AI coding looks like inside a company that's already built around it!

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