Model welfare, building a civilization for agents, and the CI/CD landrush

This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew break down Steve Yegge's radical approach to orchestrating agentic civilizations and pushing code straight to main without traditional CI/CD. The conversation also highlights the art of constructing effective AI harnesses by balancing context complexity with cognitive locality and the Socratic method. Finally, they dive into the math community's existential crisis as AI accelerates the frontier of knowledge far beyond the speed of human peer review.

Register: Dev Interrupted Presents: The Software Factory Roundtable

Follow the show:

• Subscribe to our Substack 
• Follow us on LinkedIn
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel

Follow the hosts:

• Follow Andrew
• Follow Ben
• Follow Dan

Follow today's stories:

• Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For’
• The Shape of Things to Come
• The Shape of Things to Come - Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers
• How AI helped Socrates to help me actually understand myself
• The Month AI Conquered Math: The Full Story
• How to Build an Effective Agent Harness
• Making AI Visible, Not Vanished: How AI Policies Reshape Developer Experience on GitHub

OFFERS

• Start Free Trial:Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.
• Book a Demo:Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.

LEARN ABOUT LINEARB

• AI Code Reviews:Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.
• AI & Productivity Insights:Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.
• AI-Powered Workflow Automations:Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.
• MCP Server:Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.