Dev Interrupted

Your data warehouse still thinks a human is on the other end of the query. That's a problem MotherDuck CEO and co-founder Jordan Tigani knows from the inside, having spent years as a founding engineer on Google BigQuery. This week on Dev Interrupted, he joins Andrew to make the case that one warehouse per agent beats the distributed systems he used to work on. He lays out Watertown, his riff on Steve Yegge's Gastown that recasts the data engineer as the manager of a fleet of agents, and walks through how MotherDuck's Flights, Dives, and just-launched Guides keep pipelines, visualizations, and business context as code reviewed in GitHub. 
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MotherDuck: The DuckDB-powered data warehouse built for small data and agents at motherduck.com
Water-Town: Read Jordan's take on the agent swarm data stack, his riff on Gastown, at motherduck.com/blog
Flights: Learn how MotherDuck turns data ingest into scheduled Python scripts your agents can write at motherduck.com/blog
Dives: See how MotherDuck replaced its BI tool with LLM-written TypeScript visualizations at motherduck.com/blog
Guides: Read the docs on MotherDuck's new Markdown context layer for agents at motherduck.com/docs
MotherDuck Blog: Keep up with all things MotherDuck at motherduck.com/blog
MotherDuck Community: Join the community Slack at community.motherduck.com
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This week on the Friday Deploy, Andrew is joined by Dev Interrupted's producer Adam Noble to size up OpenAI's declaration that the AGI era has arrived, the Navier-Stokes race that has the math world crying foul, and why Meta is ditching its own messaging stack for Slack. They also dissect the bizarre saga of OpenAI's sandboxed agents leaving whispered notes for their future selves, and the "super dark factory." Finally, they celebrate Kiro Pro going free for over a million college students and tease a terminal-first upcoming news segment. 
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The Era of AGI
A Bad Day For Humans, a Worse Day For Humanity
Meta is switching to Slack because it says it's better for AI agents
Agency and Agents
The Superdark Factory
Spec-Driven Development for Agentic Software Engineering: Harnessing Human-Agent Teamwork
Inside Dev Interrupted’s agentic newsroom and what it reveals about the future of tech media
Kiro Pro for students: kiro.dev/students 
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If your AI agents are starving for accurate context, or breaking production because they have way too much access, you are officially in the middle of the data ingestion crisis. This week, Airbyte CEO and co-founder Michel Tricot unpacks the massive data access and context sprawl challenges that are crippling AI workflows in production. He and Andrew dive into the critical need for strict data permissions, automated entity resolution, and why the transition to agentic workflows perfectly mirrors the paradigm-shifting migration from bare-metal servers to the cloud. Finally, Michel explains why obsessing over short-term AI ROI is a massive mistake, revealing how Airbyte measures true success with their internal automation project, Hydra.
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Airbyte: Explore the open-source data integration platform powering AI context at airbyte.com
Agent Blueprint: Read Michel Tricot's newsletter on building agentic data infrastructure on Substack
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This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack Nvidia's massive acquisition of Hugging Face and what it means for the future of localized models. They also explore the multiplayer updates in OpenClaw 2.0, how relentless AI scraper bots are overwhelming kernel.org, and how engineering leaders can continuously balance safe infrastructure investments against volatile technology bets. Finally, they discuss why a strong engineering culture remains the ultimate productivity hack and how autonomous agents will only amplify existing organizational dysfunction. 
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NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face
Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
Creepy crawlies
Reject Change, Sometimes
Good Culture is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
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In this special episode, Andrew hosts HumanLayer CEO Dexter Horthy, Warp Head of Product Engineering Aloke Desai, and LinearB COO Dan Lines. They debate why human ownership of pull requests remains nonnegotiable and how to implement "night vision" observability across automated workflows. The panel also explores why incident management is the final frontier for AI and how to get your team excited about building the factory instead of fighting it.
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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
Oracle Red Bull Racing: Read more about the F1 team's systems engineering at redbullracing.com
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