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We investigate what it takes to grow developer tools and AI DevTools. Topics include developer marketing, DevRel, developer advocacy and developer experience. Featuring founders and key people from the likes of Vercel, ElevenLabs and OpenAI.
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- 2 weeks ago10 min
Siddhartha Borah from Brackett: teaching agents work that was never written down (Heavybit DevGuild)
In this episode, Siddhartha Borah, cofounder and CTO of Brackett AI, joins us at Heavybit DevGuild. Siddhartha explains how Brackett is building agents that can learn complex business work — especially in areas like supply chain and operations, where the real context often lives in people’s heads rather than documentation. We talk about teaching agents by doing the work, turning messy human knowledge into reliable workflows, agent-in-the-loop systems, memory, knowledge graphs, and why the last mile of enterprise automation is so hard.Links:• Siddhartha Borah’s LinkedIn• Brackett AI• Heavybit DevGuild 00:00 Intro00:30 What Brackett AI is building01:40 Learning work that was never written down03:30 Turning human context into repeatable workflows05:20 Why real-world agents fail without hidden context08:00 Teaching agents by doing the work09:50 Handling edge cases and human handoff11:30 Memory, knowledge graphs, and “déjà vu” for agents14:00 Where to learn more
- 3 weeks ago11 min
James Arthur from ElectricSQL - agents are data, not compute (Heavybit DevGuild)
In this episode, James Arthur, cofounder and CEO of ElectricSQL, joins us at Heavybit DevGuild. James explains why Electric has evolved from Postgres sync into data infrastructure for collaborative multi-agent systems. We talk about Durable Streams, Electric Agents, why agents should be modeled as long-lived data rather than compute, and why the future of agent infrastructure may look more like sync than sandboxes.Links:• James Arthur’s LinkedIn• James Arthur on X• Electric• Electric blog• Heavybit DevGuild
- Aug 20, 202612 min
Dave Fletcher from LeadDev: what engineering leaders want from AI
In this episode, Dave Fletcher, cofounder of LeadDev, joins us at LDX3 London.Dave shares what LeadDev is seeing from thousands of engineering leaders, including what tools they are buying, how AI coding tools are changing downstream needs, and why observability, CI/CD, testing, reliability, and security are rising up the priority list.We also talk about how DevTools companies should message AI without triggering engineers’ bullshit detectors, why specificity beats hype, and why in-person events are becoming more important as digital channels get crowded.Links:Dave Fletcher’s LinkedInLeadDevLDX3 LondonLeadDev events
- Aug 17, 202618 min
Dennis Pilarinos from Unblocked: context for AI coding agents
In this episode, Dennis Pilarinos, founder and CEO of Unblocked, joins us at LeadDev in London.Dennis explains why AI coding agents are only as good as the context they can access, and why every new agent is like a developer on their first day at a company.We talk about organizational context, token savings, MCP, stale documentation, knowledge graphs, permissions, identity across systems, and why the next big infrastructure layer for AI development may be the context layer.LinksDennis Pilarinos on LinkedInDennis Pilarinos on XUnblockedUnblocked BlogContext EngineeringLeadDevLDX3 London
- Aug 6, 202610 min
Ian Coe from Tonic.ai: synthetic data, AI training, and enterprise fine-tuning
In this episode, Ian Coe, Co-founder and CEO of Tonic.ai, joins us at Heavybit DevGuild.Ian explains how Tonic started by helping developers create safe, realistic data for testing and development, and how that has expanded into AI model training, de-identification, and synthetic datasets for reinforcement learning.We discuss structured vs. unstructured data, healthcare and financial services use cases, Tonic Fabricate, Tonic Textual, fine-tuning, RL environments, and why enterprises are becoming more interested in training models on their own data.LinksIan Coe's LinkedInTonic.aiTonic FabricateTonic TextualTonic BlogHeavybit DevGuild
- Jul 28, 202615 min
AI agents need cheaper sandboxes | Alex Jung from Unikraft (Heavybit DevGuild)
In this episode, Alex Jung, cofounder and CPO of Unikraft, joins us at Heavybit DevGuild. Alex explains how Unikraft went from an academic unikernel project to a cloud platform for running highly efficient workloads. We talk about why unikernels can make applications faster, cheaper, and more secure, how AI agents are driving demand for sandboxed compute, and why the next wave of software generation may require a much more efficient cloud infrastructure layer.Links:• Alex Jung’s LinkedIn• Alex Jung on X • Unikraft• Unikraft on GitHub • Unikraft open source project
- Jul 10, 202648 min
Kim Maida on the DevRel Flywheel, AI, and Measuring What Matters
In this episode, Kim Maida joins the podcast to talk about DevRel, AI, developer experience, and measuring what actually matters. We also dive into her developer empowerment flywheel and how Keycard is approaching identity and access for AI agents.Links: • Kim Maida • Keycard • Kim Maida on LinkedIn • Kim Maida on X
- Jun 24, 202646 min
Robby Russell on Oh My Zsh, Developer Experience, and Open Source
In this episode, Robby Russell joins to talk about how Oh My Zsh went from a tool for a few coworkers to one of the most popular open source developer tools in the world. They cover developer experience, open source maintenance, AI-assisted pull requests, and how AI could reshape software consulting.Links: • Robby Russell • Oh My Zsh • Maintainable podcast • Ruby on Rails Podcast • Planet Argon
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