Dev Interrupted
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.
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Dev Interrupted
The cost of intelligence will never be this cheap again, the failure of intensive specs, and how bots disguise inefficient workflows
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Are we officially entering the "Eternal Sloptember"? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack the quiet rebellion against skyrocketing API costs as teams transition to fine-tuned local models. They also explore the changing physical architecture of AI data centers, the dangers of using autonomous tools as a crutch for broken workflows, and why spec-driven development is critical for keeping agentic code in check. Finally, the hosts share their latest personal agent experiments, from benchmarking open-source models on a local Mac Studio to taming an AI-generated second brain.
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- Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs Frontier labs
- AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?
- "The AI Can Do It" Is Not an Excuse To Tolerate a Mess
- The Eternal Sloptember
- I’m tired of talking to AI
- If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
- A Blast from the Past: SDD and the Illusion of Known Scope
- Andrew’s paper: Mise en Place for Agentic Coding: Deliberate Preparation as Context Engineering Methodology
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