Dev Interrupted

LinearB

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.Subscribe to stay ahead of the next era of code.

  1. 1d ago

    The cost of intelligence will never be this cheap again, the failure of intensive specs, and how bots disguise inefficient workflows

    Are 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 to fine-tuned local models. They also explore the changing physical architecture of AI data centers, the dangers of using autonomous tools as a crutch for broken workflows, and why spec-driven development is critical for keeping agentic code in check. Finally, the hosts share their latest personal agent experiments, from benchmarking open-source models on a local Mac Studio to taming an AI-generated second brain. Learn why: LinearB is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Developer Productivity Insight Platforms Follow the show: Subscribe to our Substack Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelLeave us a ReviewFollow the hosts: Follow AndrewFollow BenFollow DanFollow today's stories: Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs Frontier labsAI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?"The AI Can Do It" Is Not an Excuse To Tolerate a MessThe Eternal SloptemberI’m tired of talking to AIIf you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill youA Blast from the Past: SDD and the Illusion of Known ScopeAndrew’s paper: Mise en Place for Agentic Coding: Deliberate Preparation as Context Engineering MethodologyOFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.LEARN ABOUT LINEARB AI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

    39 min

  2. 4d ago

    Observability is your profit center now | Honeycomb’s Christine Yen

    What 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 explore how observability, data science, and product development are colliding in the agentic era. Christine explains why production signals must become compiler inputs for autonomous agents and how MCP tools are democratizing telemetry for entire organizations. Finally, the two discuss Honeycomb's latest Innovation Week announcements and the exact strategy for reframing observability from basic risk mitigation into a clear revenue accelerant. Learn why: LinearB is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Developer Productivity Insight Platforms Follow the show: Subscribe to our Substack Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelLeave us a ReviewFollow the hosts: Follow AndrewFollow BenFollow DanFollow today's stories: Honeycomb Blog: Read deep dives on SLOs at honeycomb.io/blogHoneycomb Innovation Week: Explore the latest announcementsRequired Reading: Check out the book Observability Engineering by Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda.HumanX Interview: A Codebase Is No Longer the Source of Truth"Production is a Compiler Input": Chad Fowler's take on the future of code generation. Follow Christine on LinkedInOFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.LEARN ABOUT LINEARB AI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

    48 min

  3. May 22

    What Google didn’t announce at I/O, defining “dark flow” and ignoring your first brain to build your second one

    Andrew 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 distill their management style using AI, debate whether complex note-taking apps are a form of procrastination, and call on listeners to participate in a new vibe coding research study. Finally, Andrew shares his "Skills Olympics" methodology for stress-testing and managing his own personal fleet of AI agents.  Learn why: LinearB is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Developer Productivity Insight Platforms Follow the show: Subscribe to our Substack Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelLeave us a ReviewFollow the hosts: Follow AndrewFollow BenFollow DanFollow today's stories: PollyReach: Give your agent a real number and voice to make calls.Google is launching its own version of OpenClawGoogle touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgyVibe Coding Experience SurveyDistilling yourselfOpen-source alternative to ObsidianOFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.LEARN ABOUT LINEARB AI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

    30 min

  4. May 19

    Android is the frontier for agents and other lessons from Google I/O | Matthew McCullough

    With 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 across the Android ecosystem. Matthew shares his insights on why developers are rapidly transitioning into agent orchestrators, why CLIs are cool again, and how tools like AI Studio have rolled out a massive welcome banner for anyone to actively participate in the creation process. Finally, the two explore the future of mobile user interfaces and how the latest Android 17 developments are stripping away legacy friction to seamlessly get users straight to the good part. OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.LEARN ABOUT LINEARB AI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

    27 min

  5. May 15

    Agents get their own AOL, Andrew gets published, and vibe coding is actually good?

    Is 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 traditional technical interview, and discuss why companies like Warp are prioritizing AI prototypes over planning meetings. They also celebrate Andrew's newly published research on "mise en place" context engineering. Finally, they break down the enterprise AI "last mile" crisis and share how they are using personal knowledge graphs to upskill their own agents. Read the guide: The APEX Framework Follow the show: Subscribe to our Substack Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelLeave us a ReviewFollow the hosts: Follow AndrewFollow BenFollow DanFollow today's stories: AOL for agentsVibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d likeMise en Place for Agentic Coding: Deliberate Preparation as Context Engineering MethodologyBuild, then alignThink the technical interview is dead? Think againThe last mile is where enterprise AI actually diesOFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.LEARN ABOUT LINEARB AI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

    41 min

  6. May 12

    It’s Tuesday and your tech stack is obsolete (again). Now what? | Theory Venture’s Bryan Bischof

    Does 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, to explore the hidden levers of inference systems and the industry's obsession with prematurely writing off useful tools. Bryan shares his experiences with why prompt optimization is mostly a dead end, the secret to building high-performing data agents, and how his team builds operational software for VCs. The two also break down the origins of the satirical rip-grep.com and drop hints about Bryan's highly anticipated next AI game show experiment.  AI Council 2026: Catch Bryan's track on inference systems and get tickets. Read the guide: The APEX Framework Follow the show: Subscribe to our Substack Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelLeave us a ReviewFollow the hosts: Follow AndrewFollow BenFollow DanFollow today's stories: Events: Catch Bryan's track live at the AI Council Conference.Writing: Check out the April Fools manifesto at rip-grep.comTheory Ventures: Learn more about the work happening at Theory Ventures.X/Twitter: @BEBischofLinkedIn: Bryan BischofOFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.LEARN ABOUT LINEARB AI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

    56 min

  7. May 8

    Goblins in prod, the messy middle of AI adoption, and everything is a harness now

    Are 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 Ben break down the hilarious and terrifying realities of agentic intention drift, exploring how a "goblin" invasion in ChatGPT and poorly scoped tokens are wreaking havoc on production environments. They also navigate this messy organizational adoption phase, discussing why senior developers are accelerating while juniors stall out on the K-shaped productivity curve. Finally, the hosts wrap up with a look at the open-source renaissance of agentic harnesses like Lattice and Pi.dev. Read the guide: The APEX Framework Follow the show: Subscribe to our Substack Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelLeave us a ReviewFollow the hosts: Follow AndrewFollow BenFollow DanFollow today's stories: Where the goblins came fromAI didn't delete your database, you didWhen everyone has AI and the company still learns nothingFragments: May 5Specsmaxxingclaude code is not making your product betterOFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.LEARN ABOUT LINEARB AI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

    31 min

  8. May 5

    Teach the primitives or watch your competitor define them | Baseten’s Philip Kiely

    If 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 Kiely, Head of AI Education at Baseten and author of Inference Engineering, to discuss why the secret to winning the AI market is owning the educational narrative through active market development. They explore the rise of the "Double-T" shaped engineer, the hidden complexities of scaling the inference stack, and why the most successful AI companies treat developer education as a mission-critical go-to-market motion. Read the guide: The APEX Framework Follow the show: Subscribe to our Substack Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelLeave us a ReviewFollow the hosts: Follow AndrewFollow BenFollow DanFollow today's stories: Baseten: Explore the inference platform where Philip serves as Head of AI Education. Inference Engineering: Download the free PDF or order a paper copy of Philip's comprehensive guide to the AI infrastructure stack. LinkedIn: Philip Kiely X/Twitter: @philipkiely Website: philipkiely.com OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.LEARN ABOUT LINEARB AI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

    36 min
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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.Subscribe to stay ahead of the next era of code.

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  • Creator
    LinearB
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    298
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