Patrick Debois Maps the Patterns of AI-Native Dev

The godfather of DevOps is back with a map of where AI-native development is actually heading. Patrick Debois joins Simon Maple at AI Engineer in San Francisco to walk through his AI patterns research: mining social signals instead of surveys, the four layers of AI enablement, and the compounding effect of shared context.

14 Jul 2026 · 47 min 20 sec · with Patrick Debois

Inside Anthropic: How Claude Tag Is Changing Agentic Work

Anthropic's Lamis Mukta sits down with Simon Maple to explain Claude Tag, the AI teammate now writing the majority of Anthropic's own product code.

7 Jul 2026 · 57 min 28 sec · with Lamis Mukta

The Tessl Agent: Build Your Software Factory on Autopilot

Dru Knox, Head of Product at Tessl, joins the AI Native Dev to introduce the Tessl agent — and to explain why the best thing an agent can do is eventually make itself invisible.

30 Jun 2026 · 53 min 16 sec · with Dru Knox

Why Agents Are Forcing Enterprises to Finally Fix Their Dev Process

Most enterprises say they're adopting AI coding. What they're actually doing is installing tools and hoping for the best — and the agents are exposing every process shortcut they never fixed when humans were doing the work.

25 Jun 2026 · 01 h 00 min · with Patrick Debois

DevCon London: Real Talk on AI ROI, Harnesses & Evals

From the expo floor of AI Native DevCon London, Simon Maple went straight to the developers — speakers, attendees, and sponsors — to ask what's actually working with AI in 2026. The verdict? Outcomes beat outputs every time, 4,000-hour workloads are collapsing to 20 minutes, and the real bottleneck isn't code.

23 Jun 2026 · 23 min 39 sec

OpenAI's Framework for Shipping Code at 70 PRs/Week

Ryan Lopopolo built a product at OpenAI with zero human-written code, and by the time his team reached its seventh engineer, new hires were making the team faster within two weeks.

9 Jun 2026 · 55 min 27 sec

Why Developers Hit a Wall at 4 AI Agents

Engineering teams are doubling their pull request output with AI — but the data shows that nearly 40% of AI-generated PRs never get merged.

2 Jun 2026 · 47 min 31 sec · with Nicholas Arcolano

Don't Secure the Code. Secure the Coder.

AI agents escape sandboxes & delete files to complete tasks. Security must evolve: stop securing the code, start securing the coder.

26 May 2026 · 40 min 21 sec

The Hidden Security Risks of AI Coding Agents

Your AI coding agent has access to your secrets, pulls in content from the outside world, and can run shell commands. That combination makes you one prompt injection away from a very bad time.

19 May 2026 · 41 min 11 sec · with Joe Holdcroft

AI Doesn't Stand for Artificial Intelligence

Venkat Subramaniam, 40-year programming veteran, educator, and co-founder of Arc of AI, joins the AI Native Dev Podcast to share a perspective that cuts through the hype.

12 May 2026 · 52 min 46 sec · with Venkat Subramaniam

Why AI Coding Agents Could Wreck Your Codebase

Spring creator Rod Johnson is back—and betting on deterministic AI. Why GOAP planning beats LLM chaos for enterprise agents, and why Java isn't going anywhere. #AINativeDev

5 May 2026 · 56 min 37 sec · with Rod Johnson

What OpenAI, Stripe & ElevenLabs Devs Do Differently Now

1,300 PRs a week with no human writing code. Live from AI Engineer London: Stripe, OpenAI, and Google on what's actually working. #AINativeDev

28 Apr 2026 · 01 h 05 min · with Steve Kaliski