Dev Interrupted

What happens when your autonomous coding agents need to navigate your core infrastructure? Do you hand them the keys and hope for the best? (gulp!) This week on Dev Interrupted, 1Password CTO Nancy Wang teaches the golden path for agentic security: just-in-time secrets that grants AI "access without custody." She also shares her CTO playbook for measuring true agentic ROI beyond raw PR volume, explains why 1Password has officially replaced traditional coding interviews with agent builder tests, and confesses she’s shipping PRs again with her own fleet of agents between meetings. Like many CTOs we’ve had on the show, Nancy reminds us that code is cheap now, and review is what’s expensive now. We get into tactics for addressing that bottleneck.
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1Password: Explore the enterprise password and identity platform at 1password.com
1Password for Developers: Dive into the new developer tooling, credential brokering, and secure AI workflows at 1password.dev
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When an AI can write 90 percent of a codebase in minutes, why is finishing the project harder than ever? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew explore the recent string of GitHub outages and why the surge in autonomous agents is forcing teams to rethink where they host their code. They once again dive into the emerging trend of software factories, breaking down how engineering leaders are turning chaotic AI pull requests into streamlined assembly lines. Finally, they share tactical advice for "landing the plane" and pushing past scope creep to deliver the grueling final fraction of any major initiative. 
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Incident Report for GitHub
Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Everyone building a software factory wants the same proof
Introducing Warp Factories
Landing the plane
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MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

Every engineering team wants to build its own custom AI agent, but what if all your organization needs is a standardized skill or a stateless MCP server? This week on Dev Interrupted, Andrew sits down with AWS Senior Principal Engineer Clare Liguori to untangle the ecosystem of modern agentic architecture. They work through how a team decides which AI building blocks to own, and how to get that reach without inheriting a maintenance burden. Clare shares her perspective on the simplified MCP 7.28 spec and why stripping away heavy custom scaffolding is how enterprise AI scales.
That same shift is what makes MCP a gamechanger for LinearB customers, bringing your SDLC context layer, git, project management, and software delivery, into any agentic surface. What could your agents achieve if they can query your SDLC?
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Strands Agents SDK: Explore the open-source framework for building model-driven agents at strandsagents.com
MCP 7.28): Dive into the new stateless specification at modelcontextprotocol.io
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MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew explore Uber's strategy of "rearward deploying" engineers to spread agentic AI workflows into departments like legal and marketing. They also dive into Anthropic making Claude Code's Auto Mode the default, Meta's new on-device Muse Glimmer model, and Tim O'Reilly's case for an open source AI ecosystem. Finally, they break down context engineering for the SDLC and examine new research showing why generalized agent skills outperform personalized ones. 
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After starting the tokenmaxxing panic, Uber's CTO is back with a very different AI story
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device
Why Open Source Matters for AI
Your SDLC is your context engineering
Do personalized skills help coding agents? An empirical study of developer interaction histories
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AI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.
AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.
AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.
MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

This week, LinearB CTO Yishai Beeri joins the show to unpack fresh mid-year benchmark data revealing a widening productivity gap between elite engineering teams and the rest of the industry. The conversation explores why tracking pure AI adoption is a trap, detailing how leaders must shift focus to measuring true leverage through metrics like PR yield rate and cost per PR. Finally, they break down why fully autonomous agentic workflows are currently bottlenecking at the review stage and how to establish human ownership to prove real ROI to your finance team. 
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The AI Productivity Gap Report: Read the full report and explore the 2026 data from 2.7 million PRs
LinearB: Learn how to measure AI leverage and optimize your engineering workflows at linearb.io
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Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.
Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.
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AI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.
AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.
AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.
MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.