NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face, OpenClaw 2.0 goes multiplayer, and the Linux kernel fights back against AI scrapers
This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack Nvidia's massive acquisition of Hugging Face and its implications for localized models. They explore...
Why software factories fail without humans | HumanLayer, Warp & LinearB
HumanLayer CEO Dexter Horthy, Warp Head of Product Engineering Aloke Desai, and LinearB COO Dan Lines debate the viability of software factories and why...
Build fences not sandboxes, earn the currency of trust, and share the cognitive burden of agents across engineers
This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew evaluate the arrival of Ox Alpha and unpack the security risks surrounding black-box AI tools. They examine why...
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Can agents keep a secret? We asked 1Password’s CTO Nancy Wang
1Password CTO Nancy Wang joins the show to break down the golden path for agentic security, explaining how just-in-time secrets provide autonomous AI with...
The battle to replace Github, building assembly lines for software, and why no one finishes projects anymore
This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack how surging agentic code volume and persistent GitHub outages are challenging traditional code hosting....
Agent, skill, or MCP? Which to use and when to use them | AWS’ Clare Liguori
AWS Senior Principal Engineer Clare Liguori joins the show to untangle modern agentic architecture and help engineering teams choose between full agents,...
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This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew break down Uber's strategy of rearward deploying engineers to scale agentic workflows across non-technical...
The playbook to close your team’s AI productivity gap | LinearB’s Yishai Beeri
LinearB CTO Yishai Beeri joins the show to unpack 2026 benchmark data from 2.7 million PRs, exposing a widening productivity gap across engineering teams....
Model welfare, building a civilization for agents, and the CI/CD landrush
On this episode of the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew break down Steve Yegge's radical approach to building agentic civilizations and pushing code straight to...