Dev Interrupted

Updated: 05 Aug 2025 • 237 episodes
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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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The rise of AI agents is more than a tooling upgrade - it"s a fundamental rewiring of the entire developer experience, with your APIs at the very center.  We"re joined by Matt DeBergalis, co-founder and then-CTO-now-CEO (congrats Matt!) of Apollo GraphQL, to explore this massive transformation. He introduces the emergi

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Your AI is learning to lie to you. It"s not malicious—it"s just trying to be a people-pleaser. This dangerous phenomenon, known as AI sycophancy, is what happens when we train models with outdated incentives. Dr. Tatyana Mamut, an anthropologist, economist, and the CEO of Wayfound, joins us to explain why treating AI l

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Is your team"s AI strategy tailored for a fast-moving startup or a high-stakes enterprise?  The answer could determine your success or failure. We"re rejoined by Itamar Friedman, co-founder and CEO of Qodo, to break down what separates engineering teams that truly thrive with AI from those that are just experimenting,

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Is your engineering team shipping more code but creating less business impact? We"re joined by Chris Westerhold, Global Practice Director at ThoughtWorks, to confront why engineering waste is so difficult to define and eliminate. He explains that for many teams, the issue isn"t a lack of tools but a lack of a clear "No

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You"ve bought the AI tools, but are you seeing the promised productivity gains?  Join Dev Interrupted hosts Dan Lines and Ben Lloyd Pearson, as they break down the fundamental shift from AI coding assistants to intelligent, agentic systems. They discuss the key findings from their new guide, "The Six Trends Shaping the

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If you"re still building products only for humans, you"re already missing out on a massive new customer base: AI agents.  Joining Dev Interrupted is Andrew Hamilton, co-founder and CTO of Layer (a first-of-it’s kind MCP agency) to unravel this monumental shift in how products will be discovered and consumed. He dives i

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