
Dev Interrupted
Dev Interrupted is the go-to podcast for software engineering leadership. Each week, hosts Andrew Zigler, Ben Lloyd Pearson, and Dan Lines sit down with industry experts to explore the strategies, struggles, and stories behind high-performing software teams. Paired with weekly industry news coverage, the conversations dive deep into the real challenges that define excellence in modern tech.
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Vibe coding is a developer"s dream, but in the enterprise, it can be a nightmare of risk and shadow IT. So how do you saddle the "wild horse" of modern AI development? Dan Fernandez, VP of Product Management, Developer Services at Salesforce, joins the conversation to share the answer: a new category his team is pionee

Building the internet’s next infrastructure layer | Cloudflare's Brendan Irvine-Broque
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is evolving beyond local developer experiments and into the secure, remote infrastructure that will power the next generation of the internet. Brendan Irvine-Broque, Director of Product at Cloudflare, joins us to share a roadmap for this future. He explains how Cloudflare"s "customer ze
What do you learn after spending 15 years at Apple and demoing your work directly to Steve Jobs? Ken Kocienda, Co-founder of Infactory AI and author of Creative Selection, joins us to share the answer. As a former Principal Engineer at Apple who helped create the iPhone keyboard and autocorrect, Ken discusses his incre

Why enterprise AI lives or dies on applied research | Contextual AI’s Elizabeth Lingg
What does it take to transform a brilliant AI model from a research paper into a product customers can rely on? We"re joined by Elizabeth Lingg, Director of Applied Research at Contextual AI (the team behind RAG), to explore the immense challenge of bridging the gap between the lab and the real world. Drawing on her im
AI that talks is easy, but AI that acts securely is where everything breaks down. We"re joined by Alex Salazar, CEO of Arcade, to confront the massive and often underestimated gap between a flashy AI demo and a production-ready system. Drawing from his team"s own pivot from building agents to building the tools that se
For decades, the command line has been a developer"s staple. But what if its future isn"t to be a better terminal, but something else entirely? We"re joined by Zach Lloyd, co-founder of Warp, to discuss this groundbreaking shift in developer tooling, sharing his bold vision that the future for developers is neither th