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Dev Interrupted

LinearB
Software Development
Software Engineering
Developer Productivity
Generative AI
Artificial Intelligence
Developer Experience
Engineering Leadership
Openai
Devops
Linearb
Product Development
Open Source
Cloud Computing
Productivity
AI Tools
Technical Debt
Dora Metrics
Engineering
Remote Work
Agentic AI

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 nex... more

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When 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 of GitHub outages and why the surge in autonomous agents is forcing team... more

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Every 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 Interrupted, Andrew sits down with AWS Senior Principal Engineer Clare Liguori ... more

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This 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. They also dive into Anthropic making Claude Code's Auto Mode the defaul... more

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This 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 the industry. The conversation explores why tracking pure AI adoption is ... more

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Recent Guests

Nik Sudan
Engineering Operations Lead at Kraken
Kraken
Episode: How LinearB helps Kraken find hidden bottlenecks across thousands of engineers | Nik Sudan
Tanya Janca
OWASP distinguished member, best-selling author of Alice in Bob Learns Application Security and Secure Coding
OWASP / SheHacksPurple
Episode: Your developers are the attack surface now and vibe coding as a vulnerability | Tanya Janca
Dan Lines
COO and co-founder of LinearB
LinearB
Episode: Your SDLC needs a productivity context engine
Karthik Ramgopal
Distinguished Engineer at LinkedIn
LinkedIn
Episode: How to turn your 1000x engineer into a 10x everyone | LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal
Christine Yen
CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb
Honeycomb
Episode: Observability is your profit center now | Honeycomb’s Christine Yen
Matthew McCullough
BP of Android Development Experiences at Google
Google
Episode: Android is the frontier for agents and other lessons from Google I/O | Matthew McCullough
Simon Willis
Writer on AI adoption for large teams; open source thinker
Independent/LinkedIn author
Episode: Agents get their own AOL, Andrew gets published, and vibe coding is actually good?
Andrew Ziegler
Co-host and researcher; presents his research on agenetic coding
LinearB
Episode: Agents get their own AOL, Andrew gets published, and vibe coding is actually good?
Bryan Bischof
Head of AI at Theory Ventures
Theory Ventures
Episode: It’s Tuesday and your tech stack is obsolete (again). Now what? | Theory Venture’s Bryan Bischof

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Ben Lloyd-Pearson
Host of the show; LinearB
Andrew Ziegler
Co-host of the show; LinearB; host of Dev Interrupted

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 327 ratings
  • Relevant tech content, concisely formulated and pleasantly presented

    Podcast Addict
    5
    Toma
    3 months ago
  • Getting Ahead

    I’ve only started getting back into podcasts and I find this particular resource to be highly valuable, offering an excellent perspective on development practices and future industry trends.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    vicluong
    United Kingdom4 months ago
  • Smart Takes for Modern Engineering Leaders

    Dev Interrupted is one of the most consistently insightful podcasts for engineering leaders and builders. It strikes a great balance between tactical conversations and forward-looking tech trends. The recent episode with Russ d'Sa from LiveKit really stood out—his take on AI gaining real-time sensory capabilities like voice and vision was both fascinating and grounded in real engineering challenges. As an eng-leader who’s worked at the intersection of platforms, AI, and product, I appreciated th... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    YourCTO
    United Statesa year ago
  • A must-listen for engineering leaders

    This podcast consistently delivers real, actionable insights from people who are actually in the trenches. It’s not just surface-level tech talk, it dives into how teams really work, how to scale, improve developer experience, and balance delivery with quality. I’ve taken something valuable from almost every episode, whether it’s from a VP of Engineering at a fast-scaling startup or a thoughtful discussion on metrics that actually matter. Highly recommend if you care about leading productive, he... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    dmagun
    United Statesa year ago
  • Great insights

    I love the DI podcast. So many great insights to stay current in the space.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    123threetwoone
    United Statesa year ago

Listeners Say

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Consistently deep discussions on AI tooling and observability.
Providing practical, battle-tested engineering leadership insights.
Strong focus on real-world delivery challenges and AI governance.
Guest mix offers broad perspectives from leading tech organizations.
High signal-to-noise with tactical takeaways for engineering teams.

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#119
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How LinearB helps Kraken find hidden bottlenecks across thousands of engineers | Nik Sudan
Q: What are the main breakdowns Kraken faced when moving from pilots to production with AI, and how did you overcome them?
Kraken focused on short, quick pilots and avoided overbuilding early; they kept pilots lean, separated pilot environments from production, and prioritized automated testing and explicit expectations for what constitutes 'done.' They also emphasized data-driven identification of bottlenecks (notably review time) and used MCP-based signals to guide decisions, while ensuring leadership and non-technical stakeholders understood the context behind metrics.
Your SDLC needs a productivity context engine
Q: What early adopters are seeing as AI matures in their organizations?
Adopters are moving beyond simple adoption to proving business value through reduced cycle times, fewer incidents, and clearer ROI, with mature teams leveraging context to improve decision making.
All software is an optimization of tokens and time (and speed is still the moat) | AMD’s Anush Elangovan
Q: And what do you think has been the most profound change that you've seen with teams embracing this open-world, agentic approach?
The most profound change is the rapid shift to open, multi-agent workflows where small teams can have outsized impact, building software with many agents that can operate autonomously, while gating and testing ensure safety and reliability.
How to turn your 1000x engineer into a 10x everyone | LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal
Q: What role does memory play in making agents reliable over long-term use?
Memory is used to manage context beyond a single session, supporting working, episodic, and long-term memories to preserve preferences and intents across sessions and reduce cost and latency via smarter retrieval.
How to turn your 1000x engineer into a 10x everyone | LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal
Q: How should organizations approach adoption of AI tools to avoid bottlenecks and ensure broad productivity gains?
Focus on accelerating everyone, not just engineers, and invest in open standards and durable primitives to ensure tools can interoperate and scale without repeating the same integration work.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Dev Interrupted

What is Dev Interrupted about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A brainy, practitioner-focused show that centers on engineering leadership, AI-enabled software delivery, and the evolving role of agentic workflows in development. Across recent episodes, conversations span practical AI adoption at scale, governance, observability, and the economics of running AI-enabled teams, with a steady emphasis on data-driven decision making, end-to-end visibility, and the human factors in fast-paced engineering environments. Noteworthy traits include a tight focus on actionable takeaways, close ties to real-world delivery outcomes, and a recurring sponsor-driven framing that highlights practical tooling and productivity improvements for engineering organizations.

Listeners are likely engineers, managers, and execut... more

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3. Dan Lines
4. Karthik Ramgopal
5. Christine Yen
6. Matthew McCullough
7. Simon Willis
8. Andrew Ziegler

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