Ep. #82, Automating Developer Toil with Morgante Pell of Grit
Ken Rimple and Jessica Kerr talk with Morgante Pell of Grit about AI coding agents, developer toil, and Grit's acquisition by Honeycomb.
By: Ken Rimple
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On episode 82 of O11ycast, Ken Rimple and Jessica Kerr are joined by Morgante Pell of Grit. They trace how AI moved into everyday coding work, what makes agents hard to build and run in production, why code awareness and production awareness belong together, and what Grit's acquisition by Honeycomb opens up.
Morgante Pell founded Grit, an AI agent that takes on technical debt, code migrations, and dependency upgrades so developers do not have to. Honeycomb acquired Grit, and he now works in R&D there on pairing code awareness with production insight. His interest in AI started with the pain of backwards-incompatible API changes at Google Cloud.
Show notes are available on Heavybit.