Aug 22, 2026

The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform — Safia Abdalla, Warp

Safia Abdalla discusses Warp's cloud agent platform, emphasizing its core principle of absorbing complexity from the user. She details features like flexible sandboxes, multi-harness support, and API-driven agent orchestration. The talk highlights how agents manage Warp's open-source repository—from issue triage to PR review—and introduces the "potter's workshop" analogy as a superior model to the "software factory" for modern, human-centric software development.

Aug 07, 2026

Open Source Is Dead. Long Live Open Source. — Saoud Rizwan, Cline

Saoud Rizwan, founder of Cline, discusses how AI has eroded trust in open-source communities, leading projects like Zig and curl to restrict AI-generated contributions and exposing severe supply chain risks, as seen with the litellm compromise. He argues that while community open source is struggling, the economic imperative of "open weights" models is rising. Citing the high costs of closed LLMs and the success of models like GLM at Coinbase, Rizwan draws parallels to the Open Compute project, predicting a commoditization of AI inference. He urges American labs to release open-weights models to maintain technological leadership against foreign competitors and prevent lock-in.

Jun 02, 2026

GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle

GitHub COO Kyle Daigle discusses the new era of AI agents from the inside. He covers how he uses AI for leadership, the shift from "mega-skills" to "micro-skills," and how GitHub is navigating a 14x growth in commits. The conversation goes deep on the evolution of Copilot, the future of PRs in an agent-driven world, the challenges of scaling, and Microsoft's vision for an ambient AI operating system.

Apr 27, 2026

Why Agents are Driving Software Development to the Cloud

Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp, explains why the future of software development is moving from local, interactive agents to cloud-native, collaborative systems. He discusses the flaws in the "dev box" sandbox model, the decline of traditional SaaS interfaces in favor of "just-in-time apps," and how platforms like Warp's Oz are providing the necessary orchestration, observability, and access control for teams to effectively deploy AI agents at scale.

Apr 26, 2026

Collaborative AI Engineering — Maggie Appleton, GitHub Next

Maggie Appleton from GitHub Next argues that current agentic tools are flawed by focusing on individual productivity, ignoring the collaborative nature of software development. She introduces ACE (Agent Collaboration Environment), a multiplayer platform designed to solve team alignment issues by integrating planning, development, and shared context in a real-time, sandboxed environment.