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The Changelog · May 13, 2026 · 2h 26m

Automation at the speed of Swamp (Friends)

Adam Jacob
Show Notes

Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative, shares how AI agents are reshaping software development with his tool Swamp. He explains how his team went from 18 people to 5 and shipped 900 times in four weeks by resurrecting 90s-style User Acceptance Testing and leaning on domain-driven design. A live demo where Swamp autonomously wrote automation for a Proxmox server illustrates the paradigm shift. Jacob argues that architecture now matters more than code, and reveals why he will never accept a pull request to Swamp.

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Highlights

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Small team, high velocity with AI agents
Adam's team dropped from 18 people to 5 and shipped 900 times in four weeks by leveraging AI agents.
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Bringing back User Acceptance Testing
He revived 90s-era User Acceptance Testing as a critical quality gate for AI-generated automation.
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Architecture and domain-driven design over code
Knowing architecture and domain-driven design becomes more valuable than writing code when AI generates the implementation.
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Never accept a pull request to Swamp
He will never accept a pull request to Swamp because all changes come from AI agents, not humans.
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✧Live demo: Adam pointed Swamp at his Proxmox box and it wrote its own automation — blew my mind.
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