AI Coding meets Code Health 🪄 — with Stuart Caborn

<p>Today&#39;s guest is Stuart Caborn, distinguished engineer at loveholidays, which is an online travel agency with millions of customers around the world.</p><p><br></p><p>I&#39;m talking with Stuart because his team is doing AI coding for real.</p><p>They operate an extremely complex product and technology, with each engineer deploying to production more than 80 times a month, with more than 60% of production code being written with AI, all while maintaining an absolutely elite change failure rate under 1%, and with perfect code health.</p><p>So, let&#39;s see how they pull this off.</p><p><br></p><p>(01:29) Introduction</p><p>(02:30) What it loveholidays?</p><p>(06:04) Sponsor break</p><p>(07:00) loveholidays&#39; AI approach</p><p>(10:16) Code quality</p><p>(13:36) Making quality visible</p><p>(14:52) AI, MCP and top use cases</p><p>(22:19) Code health and engineers&#39; happiness</p><p>(29:35) How was AI implemented at loveholidays</p><p>(37:01) Experimenting with AI and skills</p><p>(42:30) How to spread AI into an org</p><p>(47:31) Guardrails in dev process</p><p>(56:40) Other process changes</p><p><br></p><p>—</p><p>Today’s sponsor is Intent by Augment. Intent is a developer workspace built for orchestrating agents: it starts with the living spec that updates as agents make progress, so every task stays aligned with no manual coordination. Try it for yourself at https://www.augmentcode.com/product/intent</p><p>—</p><p><br></p><p>You can also find this at:</p><p><br></p><p>• 📬 Newsletter: https://refactoring.fm</p><p>• 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Luds9dmzZDoDC8Q7EMbSw</p><p>• 📱 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/refactoring-podcast/id1719137305</p><p><br></p><p>—</p><p>For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, or appearing as a guest, email: luca@refactoring.club</p>