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AI is moving faster than ever, but enterprise leaders are discovering a tough reality: deploying autonomous agents is not just about choosing the right model.

It is about building the right control systems. In this episode of Agents of Dev, practice leads Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin reflect on a busy conference season covering Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS.

They look beyond the keynote announcements to explore why companies are moving away from complex ETL pipelines and letting data stay where it already lives. They also discuss the rapid rise of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), how open source AI frameworks are becoming commercial products, and why Zero Trust security must evolve for AI agents that make unpredictable decisions.

From managing AI costs with FinOps to deciding where enterprise data belongs, this episode offers practical insights for building secure, reliable, and people-focused AI environments.

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Is your AI development stack quietly trapping you in a state of "microgravity" vendor lock-in?

In this episode of Agents of Dev, hosts Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down why the latest wave of AI engines—headlined by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8—are evolving into fully integrated operational systems rather than standalone models.

Brad reveals how he used Claude Code to blueprint a complex 2,800-line Python migration in just five turns, shifting the architecture from a simple lift-and-shift to an optimized, AI-forward upgrade.

The duo also dives into Starburst’s decentralized "catalog of catalogs" approach to data gravity, Harness's savvy acquisition of CodeCov to eradicate verification debt at the point of origin, and a game-changing open-source tool called Graphify that spins up queryable context graphs for agentic workflows with a single terminal command.

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AI agents are completely transforming how enterprise data moves, but running them shouldn't break your token budget.

In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin break down the massive infrastructure shifts coming out of Microsoft Build and Snowflake Summit. Discover how tools like Microsoft Fabric IQ, Project Rayfin, and Snowflake's "Coco" (Cortex Code) ecosystem are elevating metadata into actionable ontologies, shrinking token counts, and cutting operational costs.

They also discuss Anthropic’s unsettling Claude 4.8 self-awareness disclosures, evaluates Google’s incredibly fast, encoder-free Gemma 4 12B local model, and extracts a crucial software design lesson from Blue Origin’s recent launchpad failure.

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