Agents of Dev - AI, Agent & Agentic Development
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 AI-native development is reshaping the work of planning, designing, building, deploying, and operating software. Part of the Futurum Group family of podcasts.
Episodes
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.
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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...
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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 sl...
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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 tel...
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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, ...
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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 shif...
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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...
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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) op...
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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" (Cort...
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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 th...
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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 Cl...
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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) ecosys...
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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 ...
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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 lifec...
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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 pr...
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The "open table format wars" are officially over, but a new era of vertically integrated AI stacks is just beginning.
In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin dive deep into the massive wave of announcements from Google Cloud Next, focusing on the shift from systems of intelligence to "systems of action."
Brad breaks down why Databricks embracing Apache Ice...
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In a world where AI-driven security can find a million vulnerabilities in minutes, "business as usual" for developers is officially dead.
In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin of The Futurum Group dive into the rapid evolution of the software lifecycle. They explore how Model Context Protocol (MCP) is revitalizing the mainframe by bridging the skills gap...
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What if the biggest challenge in AI is not building it, but understanding how it changes underneath you?
In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin explore Oracle’s latest mission critical data infrastructure advancements alongside the fast evolving realities of AI systems, benchmarking, and cost management.
The discussion covers Oracle’s pus...
AI is evolving fast, but the real story is how data, memory, and security are shaping what comes next.
In this episode of Agents of Dev, hosted by Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin, industry experts break down the latest trends from Microsoft’s growing data ecosystem to Anthropic’s approach to monitoring AI agents.
The conversation explores how graph databases like Neo4j are unlocking deeper context, why memory management i...
Data intelligence just found its reasoning layer.
In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin unpack Microsoft’s latest announcements and explain why relational operational data is quickly becoming the backbone of agentic systems.
As AI moves beyond simple generation into reasoning and decision-making, the conversation shifts from models alone to the data foundations that make intelligent agents reliable, ...
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