We are rapidly moving from AI as a tool to AI as a participant.

Agentic systems now write code, review designs, raise flags, and hold context across long-running tasks. We are, whether we intend it or not, building teams that include non-human members.

But what is a team, really? Not a group. Not a workforce. A team is something older and stranger. Perhaps it begins with family, with the commitment to show up even when it is costly, with the shared meaning that makes humans build, play, march, dance, and sacrifice together.

In this episode, Avraham Poupko and Ralf D. Müller explore what it actually means for an AI to be a teammate rather than a tool.

In this episode Sander Hoogendoorn talks with Eberhard about his experience at iBOOD with AI-supported software development. Why abandon Pull Requests? What does AI-assisted coding review really change? And what happens to collaboration when AI is used?

We also look beyond the tools: How does AI change the role of developers, software architecture, and technical leadership? If developers increasingly own outcomes rather than keystrokes, what skills and practices become important?

And perhaps most importantly: What does it take not just to survive the AI-native era, but to thrive in it?

Sander will also talk about this subject at Software Architecture Gathering (2026-11-16 - 19, Berlin). Use code SATV_15 for 15% off.

Kelsey Hightower is one of the most influential voices in the Kubernetes community. During his career, he worked in a variety of engineering roles at Puppet Labs and CoreOS before joining Google, where he became a developer advocate and engineer working with Kubernetes.

In this episode, Kelsey talks with Eberhard about the evolution of modern infrastructure, Kubernetes, and what these changes mean for software development more broadly. They explore the ideas, practices, and lessons that matter when building and operating software in an increasingly complex world.

Links

• GopherCon 2017: Self Deploying Kubernetes Applications - Kelsey Hightower

• self-deploying-hello-universe source code

Am TechRiders Summit 2026 (https://tech-riders.de) hatte Softfware-Architektur im Stream die Gelegenheit, kurze Gespräche mit einigen Speakern zu führen. In diesem Special spricht Petra Clemens (CIO Eppendorf) mit Hansjörg Gude (Geschäftsführer SWAGLab) über aktuelle Herausforderungen in der IT Strategie und auch Diversität in der IT.

Mehr zu Petra Clemens:

https://de.linkedin.com/in/petra-clemenshh

Psychological safety is essential for teams to speak up, disagree, make mistakes, and learn. But it is not about making everyone comfortable — it is about feeling safe enough to be uncomfortable.

In this episode, Gitte Klitgaard explores with Eberhard the role of leadership in creating psychological safety, how to recognize when it is missing, and what can be done to improve it.

Gitte will also talk about this subject at Software Architecture Gathering (2026-11-16 - 19, Berlin). Use code SATV_15 for 15% off.