Developing and maintaining strong software development environments is a recurring challenge. The emergence of AI agents has increased this complexity by introducing requirements for permission controls, environmental isolation, and resource management.
Ona is a platform designed for AI-native software development and engineering agents. It offers autonomous agents in secure, standardized environments, emphasizing enterprise control, security, and productivity to enable scalable, risk-managed AI-native engineering.
Chris Weichel, with over two decades in software engineering and human-computer interaction, is the Chief Technology Officer at Ona (formerly Gitpod). He leads the team behind the company’s cloud-native development platform. Chris appears on the podcast with Kevin Ball to discuss Ona, coding with parallel agents, the future of IDEs, languages suited for agents, the new code review bottleneck, and more.
Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Ona, formerly Gitpod.
Kevin Ball, or KBall, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and a coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and was CTO of two companies, started the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group via Latent Space.
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