Up your game with async agents w/ Jessie Frazelle

In this episode, we talk with Jessie Frazelle (Zoo, Oxide, ACM Queue) about what it takes to get real value out of async AI agents in your dev workflow. We covered: - Why most AI code review agents add noise—or worse, false confidence - The distinction between agents that summarize vs. agents that spot real bugs - How async agents shift from "helpful suggestions" to "actual second opinions" - Lessons from shipping code across Rust, TypeScript, and C++ with async agents watching - What makes a high-signal bot: sparse comments, zero hype, and earned trust - The line between tooling you use vs. tooling you start depending on Jessie walks through experiments across dozens of tools: where they failed, what stuck, and why one async agent quietly earned a spot in her team’s stack.