How do Samsara's CTO John Bicket and CPO Johan Land actually work with AI day to day? In this episode of Object Stats, they compare how they run agents, how they talk to them, and what still matters when code becomes free.

They cover:

• What AI's progress in math says about the future of engineering and product work
• Running five or six agent projects in parallel, and managing agents almost like a team
• Why tone matters: directive prompts versus curious ones, and how to keep agents from getting risk-averse
• Keeping AI-written docs clear and free of filler
• MCP, push notifications and the next wave of background agents
• Why personalized interfaces are coming as code becomes free, and what stays defensible
• What customers in logistics, oil and gas and field services are telling us about AI

Chapters:

00:00 Welcome

00:30 What AI's math breakthroughs mean for builders

06:00 How AI is changing the job

08:15 Running five agent projects at once

11:15 Don't scare your agent

13:15 Cutting the filler from AI writing

15:15 MCP and background agents

17:15 When code becomes free

21:00 Customers are pushing us on AI

About Object Stats: a podcast from Samsara where CTO John Bicket and CPO Johan Land talk about building AI for the physical world, from trucks and job sites to the utilities that keep the power on.

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