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In this RedMonk conversation, Stephen O'Grady sits down with Boris Bialek, VP of Industries at MongoDB, and Raman Jatkar, Head of Product Management for Purple Fabric at Intellect Design, to examine where agentic AI and data platforms converge. The d... more

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What does it mean to trust software? For this RedMonk Conversation, Kate Holterhoff sits down with John Ellis, President of Codethink and the contributor to the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework, to pull that question apart. Ellis leans on an old ... more

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In this MonkCast conversation, Rachel Stephens talks with Sehjung Hah, a product marketing engineer at Broadcom, about how VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 is shifting private cloud operations from click-driven dashboards toward programmable, API-first wo... more

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AI agents are writing code faster than anyone can build, test, and ship it. James Governor talks with Helen Altshuler, CEO and co-founder of EngFlow, about why the bottlenecks that once happened at Google scale are now showing up everywhere. Helen tr... more

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Open source has a new problem: you often can't tell whether the contributor on the other end is a person or an agent working on their behalf. In this RedMonk Conversation, Kate Holterhoff talks with Angie Byron, Senior Manager of Community and Advoca... more

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James Governor sits down with Marek Poliks, Head of AI at LaunchDarkly, for a spicy conversation about what it actually takes to manage agents in production. Marek makes the case that feature flags were almost designed for this moment: pulling agents... more

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What do Viking needlework, the Apollo guidance computer, and a $7 Etsy crochet pattern have in common? More than you'd think. In this episode of the MonkCast, Kate Holterhoff talks with Abbey Perini, web developer at Hygiena, technical writer, and pr... more

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James Governor talks with Charity Majors, Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, about what AI is doing to engineering practices. Majors argues that non-determinism takes more discipline, not less, and every CEO who wants their AI cookies has to eat their ... more

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Recent Guests

Helen Altshuler
CEO and co-founder of EngFlow
EngFlow
Episode: Dealing with the Next Bottleneck: Build Management at AI Scale with Helen Altshuler
Angie Byron
Senior Manager of Community and Advocacy at Temporal; Lead of Applied AI at Drupal
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Episode: "Don't Submit Code You Don't Understand": Angie Byron on AI and Open Source Trust
Marek Poliks
Head of AI at LaunchDarkly
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Episode: Why the Gateway Approach to Agents Sucks (and What to Do Instead) with Marek Poliks
Abbey Perini
Web developer and technical writer
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Episode: Where Crochet Meets Code: Fiber Arts and the History of Computing with Abbey Perini
Charity Majors
Co-founder/CTO at Honeycomb
Honeycomb
Episode: Charity Majors on AI, Determinism, Instrumentation, & Eating Your Broccoli
JT Perry
Co-founder of Barn Analytics
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Episode: Tech for Chickens with JT Perry
Paul Brookes
Senior AI engineer, TurinTech
TurinTech
Episode: Going Down the Stack: AI Inference, Kernel Fusion, and Model Tuning with Paul Brookes
Balaji Sivasubramanian
Senior director, product management, agentic AI developer platform at Red Hat
Red Hat
Episode: When Agents Become Users: Rethinking Developer Portals with Balaji Sivasubramanian
Mina Ilieva
AI engineer at TurinTech
TurinTech
Episode: AI Code Optimization by Experimentation, Without Free Bread, with Mina Ilieva

Hosts

James Governor
Host of The MonkCast, Co-founder of RedMonk
Kate Holterhoff
Host of The MonkCast

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"Don't Submit Code You Don't Understand": Angie Byron on AI and Open Source Trust
Q: How is the onboarding of junior developers affected by agentic AI, and what changes have you observed in contributor demographics?
Tools now enable broader participation—from solution architects to product managers and even marketing folks—reducing barriers to entry but requiring new onboarding and governance to ensure quality and alignment with project standards.
Where Crochet Meets Code: Fiber Arts and the History of Computing with Abbey Perini
Q: So as developers, what is it about crafting and crochet that you find most appealing or motivating?
Abbey notes that fiber arts mirror programming in terms of problem-solving, troubleshooting, and iterative learning, providing a satisfying dopamine-like feedback when patterns come together and tools produce the expected results; it also offers endless variety and a tangible product that combines creativity with technical thinking.
Where Crochet Meets Code: Fiber Arts and the History of Computing with Abbey Perini
Q: First question. So it seems like a real tension here has to do with automation versus craft and the intrinsic good of crafting. Can you talk to me about how AI has maybe disrupted the fiber craft industry?
Abbey explains that AI mainly disrupts through AI-generated patterns that can be produced quickly, but often lack reliable instructions, leading to poor results. The community responds by rating and flagging low-quality patterns and seeking accountability, while emphasizing that craft values thoughtful work and testing.
Why the Gateway Approach to Agents Sucks (and What to Do Instead) with Marek Poliks
Q: Why is the gateway approach problematic for AI observability and control?
Marek argues that gateways introduce single points of failure, add latency, and lack the full harness context needed to govern complex agent behavior; better governance happens inside the application with guardrails and online evaluations.
Why the Gateway Approach to Agents Sucks (and What to Do Instead) with Marek Poliks
Q: What business does LaunchDarkly have in the AI space?
Marek explains that feature flags are useful for agents and that moving agent control out of the application space into a managed, flag-driven system enables safer, scalable experimentation and evolution of agent capabilities.

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What is The MonkCast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

The show centers on deep-dive conversations with technology industry leaders, practitioners, and researchers who explore software development, cloud, AI, security, observability, and developer tooling. Across episodes, guests dissect real-world engineering challenges, from AI-driven code growth and agent-based workflows to open source governance, software reliability, and the evolving economics of tokens and instrumentation. The format tends to pair practical, hands-on storytelling with broader industry implications, including governance, security, and platform strategy. A standout pattern is bridging concrete technical detail (inference optimization, runtime control, CI/CD security, and monolithic vs. agentic architectures) with larger str... more

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