Build fences not sandboxes, earn the currency of trust, and share the cognitive burden of agents across engineers
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Build fences not sandboxes, earn the currency of trust, and share the cognitive burden of agents across engineers

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 28, 202636 min

This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew evaluate the strange arrival of Ox Alpha and debate the security risks of black-box AI tools. They also explore why engineering trust is more critical than ever, revisit the controversial lines of code metric in the age of AI generation, and explain why autonomous agents need structured fences rather than restrictive sandboxes. Finally, they break down the multi-agent graph architectures powering modern software factories and share actionable advice for reaching staff engineer status by driving cross-team AI adoption. Get the guide: The AI engineering productivity gap...

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Alright Angie, well I know you're feeling pumped. We just got out of this workshop that we had today, or a roundtable discussion, excuse me. We invited some friends of the show. We had Alok Desai from Warp.

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We had Dex Horthy from Human Land. We had our own Dan Lyons from Linear B talking about the software factory. And it was a really amazing discussion. Like I was actually really blown away at just like the engagement we got from the

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audience. Like it was so much fun. Which is why it's so great to attend these events when they're alive, because you kind of miss out on that if you're catching it after the fact.

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