Rebuilding CLIs for agents, it’s time to get MCP-certified, and why human code review will never catch up
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Rebuilding CLIs for agents, it’s time to get MCP-certified, and why human code review will never catch up

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 17, 202623 min
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This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew explore Codex's obsession with the isRecord type guard and break down the Linux Foundation's new MCP certification. They also discuss the fundamental mechanics of agentic loops and CircleCI's new agent-first CLI redesign. Finally, they dive into longitudinal research proving that AI creates a massive pull request bottleneck, highlighting why automated code review is the only sustainable path forward. Register: The Engineering Productivity Gap live workshop on July 30 Follow the show: Subscribe to our Substack Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelLeave us a...

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I was at this event this week and I was talking to, you know, a whole bunch of geeks about AI and all this stuff. But yeah, it's not surprising at all to me how many people out there are launching their own game company right now with AI. I don't know. It's not very surprising. Yeah. Yeah. Not at all.

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I mean, I launched one over the weekend with my five year old. I met another fellow dad and was building games with his kids. I loved it because he had like educational versions of like missile commands, for example. And then he's like already sent me the link where I can just go and like sign up and have my kids start playing this.

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So it is truly an exciting time. No, I mean, software now is just becoming a communication method, an easier way to like have fun with folks and the collaborate, explore ideas, especially like with kids as well with like just with their imagination. but even just using AI to augment the things that they love or interested in is an amazing opportunity I think for folks especially those that are maybe like educating or mentoring younger

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