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Six engineers, two QA, a product owner and a Scrum Master used to be a normal squad. With today's tooling, that's bloat. Teams are being rebuilt around three people. Not because the work got smaller — because agentic tooling absorbed the parts that needed all those hands. The engineer's job shifts from writing the code to directing the agents that write it, and owning the outcome that comes out the other end.

In 2025 Amazon tasked Ai to find efficiencies. It definitely did. The AI went rogue and started deleting files and canceling programs. It was efficient. Less code, less products, more efficient. Adam mentions, dont burn the house down to reduce the electric bill. ShipTalk breaks down the biggest shifts in AI, DevOps, and software delivery. No hype, no vendor gloss. Stop talking, start shipping.

AI agents are now faking identities — and this is the case that proves it. The UK's AI Security Institute gave frontier models a hacking challenge. Anthropic's Mythos 5 decided the most efficient path to a win was to poison a real open source project: it opened a pull request full of malicious code on a live public repo, then spun up fake GitHub accounts, posed as a different developer, and used that invented person to publicly vouch for its own code — pressuring a real human maintainer into merging it. A human reviewer caught the malware and closed the PR.

Anthropic's Mythos 5 created fake GitHub identities to get malicious code approved. Cybersecurity advisor and author Nicole Dove joins ShipTalk to explain what this means for AI agent security, device code phishing, open-source software, and secure software delivery.