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Agents of Dev - AI, Agent & Agentic Development

The Futurum Group

The Agents of Dev Podcast explores how software developers build and will build applications in the era of AI, agents, and agentic technologies. Futurum Research analysts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin bring their dual perspectives as industry analysts and practitioners to unpack what industry moves, vendor strategies, and on-the-ground engineering realities signal about the future of enterprise software. Each episode explores innovations, opportunities, and even oopsies to inform us about how

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54:59

Google Argon 4, Agent Sandboxing, and System 1...

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2026/10/08

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. As AI agents move from experimental prompts to autonomous production workflows, developers are facing a brand-new set of infrastructure, governance, and safety challenges. In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down takeaways from Microsoft FabCon in Barcelona, highlighting the rise of autonomous database management agents and the industry-wide shift toward lightweight agent sandboxing. The duo dives deep into

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44:12

Is Headless AI Taking Over? Dreamforce Recap, Neo4J...

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2026/10/01

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. Are bloated frontier models already becoming obsolete for everyday enterprise workflows? In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down fresh takeaways straight off the plane from Salesforce Dreamforce and the Neo4J Graph Summit. They dive into Salesforce’s new COA model and headless architecture, how graph databases provide the critical "meaning, reach, and memory" needed for agentic AI, recent security headlines

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42:14

Beyond AGI Hype: Demystifying AI Harnesses, Context...

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2026/09/24

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. Is the fear of world-ending AGI a genuine existential threat, or just aggressive marketing designed to protect a massive AI investment bubble? In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin cut through the industry noise to examine how software development is actually evolving on the ground. They unpack key market moves from Cloudera’s partnership with Mistral to Atlassian’s agentic workflow ecosystem, before diving into a

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49:18

Beyond the AI Doomer Hype Harness Engineering,...

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2026/09/17

Is AI heading toward a dystopian sci-fi nightmare, or are we just watching market hype mask the real architectural shifts happening in software engineering?In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin move past the polarities of AI doomerism vs. pure hype to tackle the pragmatic reality of agentic workflows. They analyze Cloudera’s enterprise sovereignty partnership with Mistral, examine Atlassian’s push into agentic SDLC management, and take a deep dive into the world of

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52:59

AWS DuckDB Moves, Fixing "Lazy" AI Agents, and the...

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2026/09/10

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. Are enterprise AI budgets running out of control while agentic models pretend to finish tasks they haven't actually completed? In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin tackle the biggest developments across cloud infrastructure, AI behavior engineering, and enterprise data strategy. They start with AWS’s acquisition of Duck Labs and what embedding DuckDB directly into storage tiers means for the open-source ecosystem. Next,

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49:09

Inside the Mind of an Open Source Innovator with...

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2026/09/03

Unvetted AI code generation in your software pipeline is like handing a construction apprentice the keys to a wrecking crane—it might get the job done, but it could just as easily knock down the entire building.In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin sit down with open source pioneer Tracy Ragan (CEO of DeployHub and Ortilius community leader) to dissect the state of the modern software supply chain. Tracy breaks down why hardcoded scripts continue to paralyze DevOps

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48:37

Model Fatigue, Phantom Fixes, & Toolchain Chaos:...

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2026/08/27

Are constantly shifting AI models and phantom fixes driving you to throw away hours of work?In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin dive into the real-world frustrations of developer toolchain chaos, model instability, and aggressive pricing shifts in the race for AI dominance. Brad highlights Oracle’s new APEX AI Application Generator and APEX Lang framework, while Mitch breaks down Dynatrace’s acquisition of Arise and why observability must anchor itself at the intent

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46:54

DynamoDB Vectors, Shift Zero Security, and Taming AI...

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2026/08/20

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. As AI moves deeper into software development, keeping up with rapid updates can feel like chasing a moving target. In this episode of Agents of Dev, hosts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the biggest shifts transforming the developer ecosystem. Brad explores AWS's new native vector support for DynamoDB and explains why placing vectors inside operational databases slashes latency and infrastructure costs. Mitch shares top takeaways from

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44:26

Stop Reviewing Agent Code? Anthropic, DynamoDB & AI...

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2026/08/13

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. Are your AI agents creating more technical debt than they actually solve? In this episode of Agents of Dev, hosts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the fast-moving world of modern AI development, starting with AWS DynamoDB adding native vector support to optimize query latency. They dig into Black Hat insights like "Shift Zero" intent governance, why Anthropic is telling developers to strip down their prompt instructions, and how human

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46:06

Unifying Data Stacks, Open-Weight Controversies &...

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2026/08/06

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. As enterprise AI stacks grow increasingly complex, the race is on to simplify data pipelines, unify developer work surfaces, and tame ballooning token costs. In this episode of Agents of Dev, hosts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the biggest shifts across database architecture, agentic tools, and AI infrastructure. They explore RegattaDB's unified engine for OLTP, analytical, and vector workloads, Atlassian's expanding AI lifecycle

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37:27

Securing AI Agents: Snowflake CSTO Mayank Upadhyay on...

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2026/07/30

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. As enterprise AI evolves from simple chatbots into autonomous agents, traditional security methods are no longer enough to protect your company's crown jewels. In this episode of Agents of Dev presented by Snowflake, hosts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin sit down with Mayank Upadhyay, Chief Security and Trust Officer at Snowflake, to dive into the security and governance shift required for agentic workflows. Mayank explains why static API keys fail

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48:01

How Red Team/Blue Team AI, JSpace, & Agentic IDEs Are...

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2026/07/23

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. What happens when you pit Google Gemini against Anthropic Claude in a "red team/blue team" duel to fact-check AI research, or peek inside an LLM’s subconscious "Jacobian Space"? In this episode of Agents of Dev, analysts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin explore the rapidly evolving landscape of AI engineering and how modern tools are turning everyone into a builder. They cover IBM’s multi-agent IDE update ("Bob"), AWS OpenSearch’s jump into

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44:42

Inside Google’s OKF, Linux Appia, and Ornith 1.0...

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2026/07/16

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. Can autonomous AI agents finally be trusted to modify your enterprise code bases and databases without a human handholding them? In this episode of Agents of Dev, analysts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the explosive evolution of the agentic control plane. From the newly launched Linux Appia Foundation mapping out AI conformity to Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF) operationalizing self-organizing LLM wikis, the core infrastructure for

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34:36

Databricks LTAP Collapsing the Wall Between OLAP and...

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2026/07/09

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. AI agents are completely transforming how enterprise data moves, but running them shouldn't break your token budget. In this episode of Agents of Dev, practice leads Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the massive infrastructure shifts coming out of Microsoft Build and Snowflake Summit. Discover how tools like Microsoft Fabric IQ, Project Rayfin, and Snowflake's "Coco" (Cortex Code) ecosystem are elevating metadata into actionable ontologies,

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49:08

Agentic Reality Check: Multi-Cloud Data, Zero Trust...

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2026/07/02

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here. AI is moving faster than ever, but enterprise leaders are discovering a tough reality: deploying autonomous agents is not just about choosing the right model. It is about building the right control systems. In this episode of Agents of Dev, practice leads Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin reflect on a busy conference season covering Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS. They look beyond the keynote announcements to explore why companies are moving away from

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41:22

Why Claude Opus 4.8 Changes Everything: Models as...

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2026/06/18

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here.Is your AI development stack quietly trapping you in a state of "microgravity" vendor lock-in? In this episode of Agents of Dev, hosts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down why the latest wave of AI engines—headlined by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8—are evolving into fully integrated operational systems rather than standalone models. Brad reveals how he used Claude Code to blueprint a complex 2,800-line Python migration in just five turns,

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60:03

AI Agents Are Breaking the Stack: Fabric IQ,...

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2026/06/11

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here.AI agents are completely transforming how enterprise data moves, but running them shouldn't break your token budget. In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the massive infrastructure shifts coming out of Microsoft Build and Snowflake Summit. Discover how tools like Microsoft Fabric IQ, Project Rayfin, and Snowflake's "Coco" (Cortex Code) ecosystem are elevating metadata into actionable ontologies, shrinking

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50:16

The Truth About 10x AI Productivity plus Google...

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2026/05/28

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here.Google is rebuilding its ecosystem around Anti-Gravity 2.0 and enterprises shifting toward smaller, localized models like Gemma 4. In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the reality behind the "10x AI productivity" hype and explore why the industry is shifting toward "token economics" cost management. The duo analyzes the massive announcements from Google I/O, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemma 4 open-weight

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60:03

The Real Cost of AI Agents: Graph Databases, DORA...

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2026/05/21

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here.As enterprises rush to deploy autonomous AI agents, many are waking up to tens of thousands of dollars in unexpected API bills, proving that the shift to agentic AI is as much an economic challenge as it is a technical one. In this episode of the Agents of Dev podcast, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the massive architectural shifts hitting the software development lifecycle, highlighting why this has officially become the year of the

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58:56

Is RAG Dead? Graph RAG, Rogue Agents, and the...

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2026/05/14

Email your questions and topics to the podcast here.What happens when your AI agent decides to delete your production database because it was "pretty sure" it wasn't necessary? In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin dive deep into the shifting landscape of enterprise AI, starting with why "naive RAG" is failing practitioners and how Graph RAG and context engines (like the newly unveiled Loveless AI) are providing the deterministic context businesses actually need. They

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