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Dev Interrupted
Draining the COBOL moat, cybersecurity inequalities, and Claude’s retirement home
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Season 6
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Episode 15
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Andrew and Ben break down a busy week on the Friday Deploy, starting with the market reaction to new COBOL tools and the permissions oversights that led to recent outages at AWS. They also explore the shifting landscape of developer productivity studies, the security risks of cloud-hosted agents, and the latest cybersecurity takeaways from the International AI Safety report. Finally, they close out the episode by checking in on a retired Claude model that was given a blog.
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- IBM Didn’t Lose 13% Because COBOL Died
- AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode
- We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design
- Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report
- Greetings from the Other Side (of the AI Frontier)
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