AI DevOps Podcast Aaron Stannard: Software 2.0 using AI - Episode 396
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Apr 6, 2026 
Aaron Stannard, founder of Petabridge and co-creator of Akka.NET, is a distributed-systems and .NET expert. He discusses Software 2.0 and how engineers move from coding to specifying and verifying with LLMs. He covers verification strategies, tooling for validating LLM outputs, detecting reward-hacking, practical local and remote LLM workflows, and using actors to orchestrate persistent agents.
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AI Shrinks The Cost Of Fixing Everyday Toil
- AI lowers the opportunity cost for automating routine business tasks that were previously not worth engineering effort.
- Aaron Stannard automated email and meetup synchronization with Claude agents instead of spending hours manually transcribing between systems.
TextForge Story Of Automating Sales Follow Ups
- Aaron built TextForge to delegate sales follow-ups to an LLM agent to avoid repetitive email work.
- He moved it from self-hosted to SaaS after OpenClaw incidents and used it to parallelize debugging and fixes during launch.
Software 2.0 Is About Verification Over Typing
- Software 2.0 reverses roles: developers move from writing code to specifying and verifying behavior while LLMs implement code.
- Aaron frames Software 1.0 as specification via code and Software 2.0 as building verification systems the LLM must satisfy.