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Pop Goes the Stack

F5
Artificial Intelligence
AI Agents
Large Language Models
Hardware Advancements
Tech Trends
Cybersecurity
Networking Infrastructure
AI Ownership
Apis
Data Centers
Generative AI
Prompt Engineering
Observability
Application Delivery
Latency
Bandwidth
Intellectual Property
System Prompts
Agentic AI
Governance

Explore the evolving world of application delivery and security. Each episode will dive into technologies shaping the future of operations, analyze emerging trends, and discuss the impacts of innovations on the tech stack.

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Round robin isn’t just “not ideal” for LLM inference. According to recent scheduling research, it’s actively harmful, because it treats inference like stateless, interchangeable API traffic when it’s anything but. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stac... more

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Mechanistic interpretability sounds academic until you try to debug a model with printf and realize there’s nothing to print. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, Lori MacVittie is joined by F5 Chief Product Officer, Kunal Anand, to talk about why ... more

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Hi everyone! This is Lori MacVittie, host of Pop Goes the Stack. This week, we’re taking a short break to rest and recharge, spend time with loved ones, and maybe even step away from our stacks for a bit (gasp!).

But don’t worry—we’ll be back soon w... more

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Agent skills were introduced less than six months ago, and they’ve already graduated from “handy configuration” to “supply chain artifact.” In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, Lori MacVittie talks with security expert Peter Scheffler about why ski... more

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Peter Scheffler
Security researcher focusing on agent skills and AI governance
Episode: Agent Skills: The new AI supply chain risk (and fixes)
Ken Arora
Security expert invited to discuss AI and secure coding
Episode: Is AI making security obsolete?
Andrew Bud
Authored insights on accountability in agentic systems
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Episode: Agent identity: Closing the "accountability vacuum" with humans
Michael Daugherty
Founder and CEO of Quill Meetings
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Episode: Local-first AI: Keep context out of the cloud
John Willis
DevOps and Deming advocate; AI historian
Episode: DevOps meets AI agents: Risk, audit, and the Deming playbook
Tim Michels
Guest discussing KBcache and inference offloads
Episode: KV cache is the real inference bottleneck (Not GPUs)
Chris Hain
Observability guru invited to discuss agentic systems
Episode: Measuring what matters: Observability for agents
Chuck Herrin
F5 field Chief Information Security Officer
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Episode: CISO Hot Takes on MCP, PQC, and Data Center Attacks
Jimmy White
VP of Engineering at F5
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Episode: AI Red Teaming in Practice: Scores, guardrails, auto-remediation

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Lori MacVittie
Host of Pop Goes the Stack
Joel Moses
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5.0 out of 5 stars from 2 ratings
  • Love the snark

    Witty, entertaining, and most importantly informative. My go to podcast for industry updates, challenges, and solution ideas.

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    United States3 months ago

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Keeps complex topics accessible without losing rigor.
Witty and insightful, great industry updates and practical ideas.
Strong guest mix; asks the right questions for engineers and security pros.
Dense with useful technical depth and real-world examples.

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Agents deleted my work: Why agents still aren’t ready for production (Yet)
Q: Are agents ready for production, and what's the current reality across the industry?
The industry is moving AI workloads toward production, but true production-ready agents are rare; most deployments are AI-enhanced apps or internal data tasks, with full autonomous agent production use still uncommon due to safety and governance concerns.
Agents deleted my work: Why agents still aren’t ready for production (Yet)
Q: What have Lori's adventures with agents looked like since we spoke last?
Experiences have been frustrating and highly variable, with productivity gains in some cases but persistent issues with context loss, incomplete transcripts, and unreliable drafts, underscoring the need for stronger boundaries and better integration.
Agent identity: Closing the "accountability vacuum" with humans
Q: So why don't we start by explaining, what's this accountability vacuum that you're talking about, and why it's suddenly a problem today?
Andrew explains that historically humans could be traced and held accountable for actions, but agents and autonomous systems erode that direct line of responsibility, making it hard to determine who is truly accountable for a given action.
VibeOps: Guardrailed agents for deterministic production
Q: How do we ensure that guardrails stay intact and that the system doesn't surprise us as it operates?
By designing the agent with composable skills, strict boundary conditions, and processes like automatic ticket creation for actions, enabling governance without crippling performance.
VibeOps: Guardrailed agents for deterministic production
Q: Production, at least good production practice is highly deterministic. And AI by its nature is probabilistic—how do we ensure accuracy?
The approach is to embed guardrails, provide structured training data and external knowledge sources, and implement staged autonomy with human-in-the-loop checks before moving to full automation.

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This show centers on application delivery, security, and the evolving role of AI in operations. Across episodes, listeners get thoughtful takes on low-code automation, AI-driven interfaces, reliable inference, performance in AI systems, and the shifting meaning of availability. Guests often bring practical engineering experience, governance and security perspectives, and real-world case insights, with a tone that blends code-level detail and strategic context. Noteworthy is the willingness to tackle emerging tech with concrete examples, guardrails, and honest assessments of trade-offs, making it useful for engineers, architects, and security professionals deciding what to adopt and how to deploy it responsibly.

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