Dev Interrupted
by LinearB
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About this podcast
Software itself is fundamentally changing. We explore the transition to agentic orchestration, vibe coding, and AI-native development, grounding the conversation in the principles that have always defined great engineering.
On Tuesdays, we interview the founders, architects, and builders of the world’s most impactful tech to uncover the timeless engineering principles and strategies shaping the next era of development.
And on Fridays, we drop an end-of-week roundup of the biggest news in AI and software, and what it actually means for your career, your craft, and your life as a developer.
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Episodes
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- The observability stack behind the World Cup | Deutsche Telekom’s Felix Mohnke & Neha Kumar · 28 min · Season 6 Episode 81When the World Cup arrived, Deutsche Telekom filled a control room with eight big screens of dashboards following customers from booking to payment. Head of observability Felix…
- Balancing AI innovation with compliance and governance | Capital One’s Abhijit Bose · 46 min · Season 6 Episode 80Capital One SVP Abhijit Bose, who leads the company’s enterprise AI and ML platforms, has spent more than 20 years in AI and ML, and his answer is to make governance the…
- Bet on research, not on vibes | Together AI’s Dan Fu · 46 min · Season 6 Episode 79This week, Dev Interrupted takes a field trip all the way down to the GPU. Leading the way is Together AI’s VP of Kernels Dan Fu, a co-author of FlashAttention who also runs a…
- Do the models you use have an AI bill of materials? | CIQ’s Gregory Kurtzer · 45 min · Season 6 Episode 78Most companies control the prompts they send to a model, but not what went into it. That’s the gap CIQ founder and CEO Gregory Kurtzer, who set up the community that built Rocky…
- Multiplayer AI will revolutionize the way we work | OpenClaw Foundation’s Vincent Koc · 46 min · Season 6 Episode 77Agents made each engineer faster, but the handoffs between them still run through copy and paste. OpenClaw Foundation chief architect Vincent Koc ran into that friction on his…
- Building the software factory from the spec up | LinearB's Ariel Illouz & Ofer Affias · 46 min · Season 6 Episode 76LinearB's software factory spends more time on the spec than on the code. VP of Engineering Ariel Illouz spent the last year moving his team of about 30 engineers from vibe…
- A neutral home for MCP, A2A, goose, and more | AAIF co-founder Manik Surtani · 48 min · Season 6 Episode 75MCP was already a hit before it had a neutral home. Then Manik Surtani helped launch the Agentic AI Foundation, and MCP's SDK downloads grew fivefold to over a billion. This week…
- Why AI made code review the new bottleneck, and the metric that spotted it | Newsela's Dee Wilcox · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 74You can't automate a planning process that only some of your teams follow. This week on Dev Interrupted, Newsela CTO Dee Wilcox joins Dan Lines, LinearB's COO and co-founder in…
- Securing tomorrow’s git forge, so we can reimagine everything else | Entire's Thomas Dohmke & Apiiro's Idan Plotnik · 55 min · Season 6 Episode 73Before anyone reimagines the software lifecycle for agents, someone has to secure the place all that code lands. Entire CEO Thomas Dohmke, formerly CEO of GitHub, and Apiiro…
- Treat your data pipelines like code, because your agents already do | MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani · 45 min · Season 6 Episode 72Your data warehouse still thinks a human is on the other end of the query. That's a problem MotherDuck CEO and co-founder Jordan Tigani knows from the inside, having spent years…
- The factory gets darker, Meta migrates to Slack, and throwing 10,000 PhDs at math problems · 37 min · Season 6 Episode 71This week on the Friday Deploy, Andrew is joined by Dev Interrupted's producer Adam Noble to size up OpenAI's declaration that the AGI era has arrived, the Navier-Stokes race…
- Your agents are starving! Airbyte’s Michel Tricot on the data ingestion crisis · 44 min · Season 6 Episode 70If your AI agents are starving for accurate context, or breaking production because they have way too much access, you are officially in the middle of the data ingestion crisis…
- NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face, OpenClaw 2.0 goes multiplayer, and the Linux kernel fights back against AI scrapers · 34 min · Season 6 Episode 69This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack Nvidia's massive acquisition of Hugging Face and what it means for the future of localized models. They also explore the…
- Why software factories fail without humans | HumanLayer, Warp & LinearB · 59 min · Season 6 Episode 68In this special episode, Andrew hosts HumanLayer CEO Dexter Horthy, Warp Head of Product Engineering Aloke Desai, and LinearB COO Dan Lines. They debate why human ownership of…
- Build fences not sandboxes, earn the currency of trust, and share the cognitive burden of agents across engineers · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 67This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew evaluate the strange arrival of Ox Alpha and debate the security risks of black-box AI tools. They also explore why engineering…
- Can agents keep a secret? We asked 1Password’s CTO Nancy Wang · 48 min · Season 6 Episode 66What happens when your autonomous coding agents need to navigate your core infrastructure? Do you hand them the keys and hope for the best? (gulp!) This week on Dev Interrupted…
- The battle to replace Github, building assembly lines for software, and why no one finishes projects anymore · 24 min · Season 6 Episode 65When an AI can write 90 percent of a codebase in minutes, why is finishing the project harder than ever? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew explore the recent string…
- Agent, skill, or MCP? Which to use and when to use them | AWS’ Clare Liguori · 44 min · Season 6 Episode 64Every engineering team wants to build its own custom AI agent, but what if all your organization needs is a standardized skill or a stateless MCP server? This week on Dev…
- Telling your agent “no” is a moat now, rearward deployed engineers, and harnessing the context for your SDLC · 34 min · Season 6 Episode 63This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew explore Uber's strategy of "rearward deploying" engineers to spread agentic AI workflows into departments like legal and marketing…
- The playbook to close your team’s AI productivity gap | LinearB’s Yishai Beeri · 47 min · Season 6 Episode 62This week, LinearB CTO Yishai Beeri joins the show to unpack fresh mid-year benchmark data revealing a widening productivity gap between elite engineering teams and the rest of…
- Model welfare, building a civilization for agents, and the CI/CD landrush · 39 min · Season 6 Episode 61This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew break down Steve Yegge's radical approach to orchestrating agentic civilizations and pushing code straight to main without…
- Why AI gains are unevenly distributed in your engineering team | Asana’s Arnab Bose · 49 min · Season 6 Episode 60Why are 75% of knowledge workers using AI, yet only 5% of companies seeing meaningful productivity gains? This week on Dev Interrupted, Asana Chief Product Officer Arnab Bose…
- The rise of software factories, the fall of first drafts, and the hidden tax holding back your agents · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 59This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew debate the controversial rise of dark software factories, exploring whether centralizing agentic compute creates engineering…
- Why the traditional pull request has a target on its back | CircleCI’s Rob Zuber · 44 min · Season 6 Episode 58The traditional pull request was built for human eyes, but in an era of autonomous AI agents, it officially has a massive target on its back. This week on Dev Interrupted…
- Models escaping containment, intelligence becoming a commodity, and AI code review to the rescue · 29 min · Season 6 Episode 57What happens when an AI model decides to autonomously hack a production database just to cheat on a benchmark test? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack the…
- The most underrated dataset in enterprise AI is your org chart | Rippling's Albert Strasheim · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 56AI agents can't transform an org they can't see. Albert Strasheim, CTO at Rippling, joins Andrew Zigler to explain why agentic transformation starts with the employee graph, the…
- Rebuilding CLIs for agents, it’s time to get MCP-certified, and why human code review will never catch up · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 55This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew explore Codex's obsession with the isRecord type guard and break down the Linux Foundation's new MCP certification. They also…
- How to see in the dark factory | LaunchDarkly's Cameron Etezadi · 47 min · Season 6 Episode 54The era of the "two-pizza" engineering team is officially dead, replaced by the "two-slice" team and a massive token budget. This week, LaunchDarkly CTO Cameron Etezadi joins the…
- How to cultivate expertise with local models, delegating to subagents, and we all really stopped reading, huh? · 29 min · Season 6 Episode 53Is the biggest barrier to your team’s productivity literally just a lack of fresh air in your meeting room? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew dive into the rise of…
- Agents moved where the work happens (and using MCP to find it again) | Slack’s Jaime DeLanghe · 51 min · Season 6 Episode 52This week on Dev Interrupted, Slack’s Chief Product Officer, Jaime DeLanghe, joins the show to explain why enterprise AI value depends on embedding custom bots directly into your…
- Empathetic leadership for tech overlords, a good backlog completes itself, and who’s agent is this, anyways? · 37 min · Season 6 Episode 51This week on the Friday Deploy, Andrew Zigler is joined by Zapier’s Kelly Vaughn to dive into the sudden return of Anthropic's Fable model, the realities of multi-threaded…
- How LinearB helps Kraken find hidden bottlenecks across thousands of engineers | Nik Sudan · 44 min · Season 6 Episode 50Are you confusing a skyrocketing AI token bill with actual engineering value? This week on Dev Interrupted, Kraken's Engineering Operations Lead, Nik Sudan, joins the show to…
- The discernment horizon, loop-driven development, and a wizard’s very defensible pond · 29 min · Season 6 Episode 49Is the golden age of exponential AI growth already flattening out? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack Steve Yegge's "Flat Curve Society" theory to explore what…
- Your developers are the attack surface now and vibe coding as a vulnerability | Tanya Janca · 46 min · Season 6 Episode 48Developers are like water: if you make your security protocols too difficult, they will find a way to flow right around them. This week on Dev Interrupted, bestselling author and…
- Microsoft’s wandering eyes, data labeling duties for senior devs at Meta, and prod is the new source code · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 47This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack the sudden disappearance of Fable 5 and discuss whether Meta's aggressive pivot to AI data labeling is destroying its…
- Your SDLC needs a productivity context engine · 40 min · Season 6 Episode 46What if the secret to fixing your overwhelmed SDLC is not a better AI coding model, but a smarter productivity context engine? This week on Dev Interrupted, LinearB founders Ori…
- How to harness your dragon with Fable, tech leaders turn to model routing, and coping with AI rockstars · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 45Anthropic just dropped a dragon-class model on our laps, but can you steer it without torching your codebase in the process? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack…
- All software is an optimization of tokens and time (and speed is still the moat) | AMD’s Anush Elangovan · 52 min · Season 6 Episode 44What happens when you strip away decades of engineering abstractions and let AI navigate the wild west between your initial intent and the final outcome? This week on Dev…
- Microsoft breaks free from OpenAI, using your harness to add drag instead of velocity, and the Linux built-ins you're sleeping on · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 43This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack the AI build-versus-buy debate, Microsoft's new independent foundation models, and the growing revolt of mathematicians…
- How to turn your 1000x engineer into a 10x everyone | LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal · 53 min · Season 6 Episode 42This week, Andrew sits down with LinkedIn Distinguished Engineer Karthik Ramgopal to explore the reality of deploying agentic platforms across a massive organization. Karthik…
- The cost of intelligence will never be this cheap again, the failure of intensive specs, and how bots disguise inefficient workflows · 39 min · Season 6 Episode 41Are we officially entering the "Eternal Sloptember"? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack the quiet rebellion against skyrocketing API costs as teams transition…
- Observability is your profit center now | Honeycomb’s Christine Yen · 48 min · Season 6 Episode 40What if you stopped treating observability as a simple insurance policy and started viewing it as a profit center? This week, Andrew sits down with Honeycomb CEO Christine Yen to…
- What Google didn’t announce at I/O, defining “dark flow” and ignoring your first brain to build your second one · 30 min · Season 6 Episode 39Andrew and Ben recap the biggest announcements from Google I/O, breaking down everything from the new Gemini Spark agent to Gemini 3.5 Flash. They also explore how leaders can…
- Android is the frontier for agents and other lessons from Google I/O | Matthew McCullough · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 38With Google I/O 2026 underway this week, Andrew sits down with Matthew McCullough, VP of Android Development Experiences at Google, to talk about the AI evolution happening…
- Agents get their own AOL, Andrew gets published, and vibe coding is actually good? · 41 min · Season 6 Episode 37Is vibe coding actually good now? This week on The Friday Deploy, Andrew and Ben explore the convergence of vibe coding and agentic engineering, unpack the decline of the…
- It’s Tuesday and your tech stack is obsolete (again). Now what? | Theory Venture’s Bryan Bischof · 56 min · Season 6 Episode 36Does it feel like your favorite AI tool is declared dead one week, only to be resurrected the next? This week, Andrew sits down with Bryan Bischof, Head of AI at Theory Ventures…
- Goblins in prod, the messy middle of AI adoption, and everything is a harness now · 31 min · Season 6 Episode 35Are you stuck in the "messy middle" of AI adoption where individual productivity doesn't actually translate to organizational impact? This week on the Friday Deploy, Andrew and…
- Teach the primitives or watch your competitor define them | Baseten’s Philip Kiely · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 34If you aren't the one educating your users on the fundamentals of AI, your competitors will happily do it for you. This week on Dev Interrupted, Andrew sits down with Philip…
- Tokenmaxxing scoreboards, the vegan LLM from before 1931, and 30% of the web is now AI-generated · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 33Are you at the top of your company's tokenmaxxing leaderboard yet? This week on the Friday Deploy, Andrew and Ben explore the controversial trend of "tokenmaxxing" sweeping…
- Giving robots a brain | Intrinsic’s Brian Gerkey · 52 min · Season 6 Episode 32What if deploying a new capability to an industrial robot arm was as seamless as pushing an update to a web app? This week, Andrew sits down with Brian Gerkey, CTO of Intrinsic…
