Wes McKinney on AI Agents, The Mythical Agent Month, and His Wild AI Coding Setup

Wes McKinney is back to discuss his complete transition from AI skepticism to becoming heavily "locked in" on coding agents.Wes shares how he overcame his initial "existential dread" about the future of software engineering and completely rebuilt his personal productivity stack using tools like Claude and Codex. We dive deep into the reality of coding agents, why he believes Go has become the ultimate language for AI agents, and how he manages massive, multi-agent workflows to build production-level software without touching DevOps. Wes also breaks down his mission to fight the platform decay of services like Gmail by building his own local data sovereignty tools.