Agents of Dev Podcast - An AI, Agent, and Agentic Development Podcast
The Agents of Dev Podcast explores how software developers build and will build applications in the era of AI, agents, and agentic technologies. Futurum analysts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin bring their dual perspectives as industry analysts and practitioners to unpack what industry moves, vendor strategies, and on-the-ground engineering realities signal about the future of enterprise software. Each episode explores innovations, opportunities, and even oopsies to inform us about how AI-native development is reshaping the work of planning, desigining, building, deploying, and operating software.
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Anthropic's "Cruelty" Rules & AI Agent Databases | Agents of Dev Episode 43
Have you ever yelled at an AI model out of frustration? Anthropic's new Terms of Service might make you think twice!
In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin dive into the latest tectonic shifts in the tech industry, starting with IBM's newly minted 4-part AI operational m...
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Google Argon 4, Agent Sandboxing, and System 1 Decisioning with Jev | Agents of Dev Episode 41
As AI agents move from experimental prompts to autonomous production workflows, developers are facing a brand-new set of infrastructure, governance, and safety challenges.
In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down takeaways from Microsoft FabCon in Barcelona, hig...
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Is Headless AI Taking Over? Dreamforce Recap, Neo4J Graph Summit & AI Security | Agents of Dev Episode 40
Are bloated frontier models already becoming obsolete for everyday enterprise workflows?
In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down fresh takeaways straight off the plane from Salesforce Dreamforce and the Neo4J Graph Summit.
They dive into Salesforce’s new COA...
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Beyond AGI Hype: Demystifying AI Harnesses, Context Economics, and Agentic Workflows | Agents of Dev Episode 39
Is AI heading toward a dystopian sci-fi nightmare, or are we just watching market hype mask the real architectural shifts happening in software engineering? In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin move past the polarities of AI doomerism vs. pure hype to tackle the pragmat...
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Beyond the AI Doomer Hype Harness Engineering, Context Economics, and Agentic Workflows | Agents of Dev Episode 38
Is AI heading toward a dystopian sci-fi nightmare, or are we just watching market hype mask the real architectural shifts happening in software engineering?
In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin move past the polarities of AI doomerism vs. pure hype to tackle the pragm...
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AWS DuckDB Moves, Fixing "Lazy" AI Agents, and the 2026 AI Budget Reckoning | Agents of Dev Episode 37
Are enterprise AI budgets running out of control while agentic models pretend to finish tasks they haven't actually completed?
In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin tackle the biggest developments across cloud infrastructure, AI behavior engineering, and enterprise data...
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Inside the Mind of an Open Source Innovator with Tracy Ragan | Agents of Dev Episode 36
Unvetted AI code generation in your software pipeline is like handing a construction apprentice the keys to a wrecking crane—it might get the job done, but it could just as easily knock down the entire building. In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin sit down with open so...
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Model Fatigue, Phantom Fixes, & Toolchain Chaos: Finding Control in Agentic Dev | Agents of Dev Episode 35
Are constantly shifting AI models and phantom fixes driving you to throw away hours of work? In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin dive into the real-world frustrations of developer toolchain chaos, model instability, and aggressive pricing shifts in the race for AI domi...
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DynamoDB Vectors, Shift Zero Security, and Taming AI Tech Debt | Agents of Dev Episode 34
As AI moves deeper into software development, keeping up with rapid updates can feel like chasing a moving target. In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the biggest shifts transforming the developer ecosystem. Brad explores AWS's new native vector support for ...
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Stop Reviewing Agent Code? Anthropic, DynamoDB & AI Tech Debt | Agents of Dev Episode 33
Are your AI agents creating more technical debt than they actually solve? In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the fast-moving world of modern AI development, starting with AWS DynamoDB adding native vector support to optimize query latency. They dig into Bla...
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Unifying Data Stacks, Open-Weight Controversies & Google's Anti-Gravity CLI | Agents of Dev Episode 32
As enterprise AI stacks grow increasingly complex, the race is on to simplify data pipelines, unify developer work surfaces, and tame ballooning token costs. In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the biggest shifts across database architecture, agentic tools, ...
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Securing AI Agents: Snowflake CSTO Mayank Upadhyay on Cortex AI Gateway Presented by Snowflake | Agents of Dev Episode 31
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As enterprise AI evolves from simple chatbots into autonomous agents, traditional security methods are no longer enough to protect your company's crown jewels.
In this episode of Agents of Dev presented by Snowflake, hosts Mitch Ashley and B...
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How Red Team/Blue Team AI, JSpace, & Agentic IDEs Are Changing Development | Agents of Dev Episode 30
What happens when you pit Google Gemini against Anthropic Claude in a "red team/blue team" duel to fact-check AI research, or peek inside an LLM’s subconscious "Jacobian Space"? In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin explore the rapidly evolving landscape of AI engineerin...
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Inside Google’s OKF, Linux Appia, and Ornith 1.0 Self-Scaffolding Models | Agents of Dev Episode 29
Can autonomous AI agents finally be trusted to modify your enterprise code bases and databases without a human handholding them? In this episode of Agents of Dev, analysts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the explosive evolution of the agentic control plane. From the newly launched Linux ...
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Databricks LTAP: Collapsing the Wall Between OLAP and OLTP | Agents of Dev Episode 28
Imagine waking up to find the core AI model powering your enterprise applications has suddenly been shut down by a government mandate. In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the geopolitical shockwaves of Anthropic's restricted model access and why CIOs must in...
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Agentic Reality Check Multi-Cloud Data, Zero Trust Security, and the Death of ETL | Agents of Dev Episode 27
AI is moving faster than ever, but enterprise leaders are discovering a tough reality: deploying autonomous agents is not just about choosing the right model. It is about building the right control systems.
In this retrospective episode of Agents of Dev, practice leads Mitch Ashley and Brad Shim...
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Why Claude Opus 4.8 Changes Everything: Models as Platforms, AI Microgravity & Graphify | Agents of Dev Episode 26
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AI Agents Are Breaking the Stack: Fabric IQ, Snowflake Coco, & Gemma 4 | Agents of Dev Episode 25
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AI agents are completely transforming how enterprise data moves, but running them shouldn't break your token budget.
In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the massive infrastructure shifts coming out of Micr... -
The Truth About 10x AI Productivity plus Google Anti-Gravity 2.0 & MCP Washing | Agents of Dev
Google is rebuilding its ecosystem around Anti-Gravity 2.0 and enterprises shifting toward smaller, localized models like Gemma 4.
In this episode of Agents of Dev, hosts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the reality behind the "10x AI productivity" hype and explore why the industry is sh...
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The Real Cost of AI Agents: Graph Databases, DORA J-Curve, and AI FinOps | Agents of Dev Episode 23
As enterprises rush to deploy autonomous AI agents, many are waking up to tens of thousands of dollars in unexpected API bills, proving that the shift to agentic AI is as much an economic challenge as it is a technical one.
In this episode of the Agents of Dev podcast, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shim...
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Is RAG Dead? Graph RAG, Rogue Agents, and the Evolution of the AI Development Stack | Agents of Dev Episode 22
What happens when your AI agent decides to delete your production database because it was "pretty sure" it wasn't necessary?In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin dive deep into the shifting landscape of enterprise AI, starting with why "naive RAG" is failing practitioner...
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Is the Data Lakehouse Dead? Databricks, Iceberg, & Google's New AI Stack - Agents of Dev Episode 21
The "open table format wars" are officially over, but a new era of vertically integrated AI stacks is just beginning. In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin dive deep into the massive wave of announcements from Google Cloud Next, focusing on the shift from systems of inte...
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Mainframe MCP, YOLO AI Workflows, and the Mythos Security Crisis | Agent of Dev Episode 20
In a world where AI-driven security can find a million vulnerabilities in minutes, "business as usual" for developers is officially dead. In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin of The Futurum Group dive into the rapid evolution of the software lifecycle. They explore how ...
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Oracle Mission Critical Scale, AI Benchmarking Pitfalls & Cost of Context | Agents of Dev Episode 19