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Edith Harbaugh: Code Is Cheap. The Last Mile Isn't.

November 10, 2026 · 49 min

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Automated software delivery is moving faster than the people who used to approve every release. LaunchDarkly co-founder and CEO Edith Harbaugh tells Guy Podjarny why rollback should be autonomous, why one-shot coding agents fail, and why the bottleneck has moved to the last mile.

What we cover:
– How automated software delivery and autonomous rollback take humans out of the 2 a.m. incident
– What makes a good feature flag, and when a homegrown system stops being enough
– Why coding agents need an explicit definition of success before they write a line
– Where release management fits in an AI software factory
– Feature flags for AI agents: switching models and prompts at runtime
– Running a company in the agentic coding era, and why teams should take dumb bets

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:16 - From quarterly releases to 30,000 changes a day
00:03:32 - Autonomous rollback and automated software delivery
00:06:25 - What makes a good feature flag
00:10:46 - Defining success for coding agents
00:16:42 - Agent fleets and engineers as reviewers
00:24:05 - Feature flags in the software factory
00:29:02 - The bottleneck moves to the last mile
00:39:24 - Runtime controls for AI agents
00:44:26 - Running a company in the agentic coding era

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