Dev Interrupted

What if you stopped treating observability as a simple insurance policy and started viewing it as a profit center? This week, Andrew sits down with Honeycomb CEO Christine Yen to explore how observability, data science, and product development are colliding in the agentic era. Christine explains why production signals must become compiler inputs for autonomous agents and how MCP tools are democratizing telemetry for entire organizations. Finally, the two discuss Honeycomb's latest Innovation Week announcements and the exact strategy for reframing observability from basic risk mitigation into a clear revenue accelerant.
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Honeycomb Blog: Read deep dives on SLOs at honeycomb.io/blog
Honeycomb Innovation Week: Explore the latest announcements
Required Reading: Check out the book Observability Engineering by Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda.
HumanX Interview: A Codebase Is No Longer the Source of Truth
"Production is a Compiler Input": Chad Fowler's take on the future of code generation. 
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Andrew and Ben recap the biggest announcements from Google I/O, breaking down everything from the new Gemini Spark agent to Gemini 3.5 Flash. They also explore how leaders can distill their management style using AI, debate whether complex note-taking apps are a form of procrastination, and call on listeners to participate in a new vibe coding research study. Finally, Andrew shares his "Skills Olympics" methodology for stress-testing and managing his own personal fleet of AI agents. 
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PollyReach: Give your agent a real number and voice to make calls.
Google is launching its own version of OpenClaw
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy
Vibe Coding Experience Survey
Distilling yourself
Open-source alternative to Obsidian
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With Google I/O 2026 underway this week, Andrew sits down with Matthew McCullough, VP of Android Development Experiences at Google, to talk about the AI evolution happening across the Android ecosystem. Matthew shares his insights on why developers are rapidly transitioning into agent orchestrators, why CLIs are cool again, and how tools like AI Studio have rolled out a massive welcome banner for anyone to actively participate in the creation process. Finally, the two explore the future of mobile user interfaces and how the latest Android 17 developments are stripping away legacy friction to seamlessly get users straight to the good part.
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Is vibe coding actually good now? This week on The Friday Deploy, Andrew and Ben explore the convergence of vibe coding and agentic engineering, unpack the decline of the traditional technical interview, and discuss why companies like Warp are prioritizing AI prototypes over planning meetings. They also celebrate Andrew's newly published research on "mise en place" context engineering. Finally, they break down the enterprise AI "last mile" crisis and share how they are using personal knowledge graphs to upskill their own agents.
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AOL for agents
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
Mise en Place for Agentic Coding: Deliberate Preparation as Context Engineering Methodology
Build, then align
Think the technical interview is dead? Think again
The last mile is where enterprise AI actually dies
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Does it feel like your favorite AI tool is declared dead one week, only to be resurrected the next? This week, Andrew sits down with Bryan Bischof, Head of AI at Theory Ventures, to explore the hidden levers of inference systems and the industry's obsession with prematurely writing off useful tools. Bryan shares his experiences with why prompt optimization is mostly a dead end, the secret to building high-performing data agents, and how his team builds operational software for VCs. The two also break down the origins of the satirical rip-grep.com and drop hints about Bryan's highly anticipated next AI game show experiment. 
AI Council 2026: Catch Bryan's track on inference systems and get tickets.
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Events: Catch Bryan's track live at the AI Council Conference.
Writing: Check out the April Fools manifesto at rip-grep.com
Theory Ventures: Learn more about the work happening at Theory Ventures.
X/Twitter: @BEBischof
LinkedIn: Bryan Bischof
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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.