Agentic Engineering: Building Hyper-Lean Product Teams

In 2026, Valentin Binnendijk walked into a software firm and
found a product department with almost zero AI experience.
Decades of deep engineering knowledge. Near-zero agentic
practice. That room is the DACH mid-market, and it tells you the
real blocker is not regulation. It is leadership and culture.


Valentin co-founded TrekkSoft and STARTUPS.CH and has spent two
decades digitising analogue businesses into SaaS. He now builds
hyper-lean product teams that ship more with fewer people. In
this episode, we get specific about how.


We cover:


Where vibe coding stops and agentic engineering starts, and
why the difference is not the model but the process

Why the bottleneck moved from the engineering team to
leadership and product management

The three-step build after leadership buy-in: extract the
knowledge, map the security risk, build a real test suite of
thousands of scenarios

How to put agentic transformation on a CFO's P&L, the
cost-saving case and the survival case

Why public markets punished narrow single-use-case software
companies with 40 to 50 percent valuation cuts

Where it breaks: talent, unrealistic expectations, and the
“can I just buy it” trap



This is a practical conversation for founders, GTM and product
leaders at B2B software companies who need to move from talking
about AI to operating with it.


The host, Marc Gasser, works at the intersection of product and
go-to-market.