Dev Interrupted

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

First, there was vibe coding. Now, get ready for "vibe entrepreneurship."  Andrew McNamara, Director of Applied Machine Learning at Shopify, joins us to explain how his team is making this new era of business a reality. He shares the vision behind Shopify Sidekick, an AI co-founder designed to empower merchants by acti

The single biggest predictor of success with AI isn"t the model you choose, it"s the DevOps culture you"ve already built.  Martin Woodward, VP of Developer Relations at GitHub - and the sixth person to ever use Copilot - joins us to explain why this surprising insight is key to the new era of autonomous coding agents.

What"s the hardest habit for a top engineer to unlearn in a leadership role?  For Minh Nguyen, VP of Engineering at Transcend, it was breaking the "I"ll do it myself" mentality. In this episode, she shares her impressive journey from individual contributor to VP at the same high-growth startup, offering a rare and hone