Open Source Ready

Ep. #44, Beyond the Model: Observing AI Agents with Mikyo King

On episode 44 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Mikyo King to explore why an agent can fail even when its model gets things right. They d

Ep. #43, You Can't Fork a Protocol with Madelyn Olson

On episode 43 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Madelyn Olson. The Valkey maintainer and AWS principal engineer explains how AI is changing

Ep. #42, When Forking Becomes a Feature with Will Cory

On episode 42 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Will Cory, creator of Smithers. Will explains how workflows can simplify agent orchestrat

Ep. #41, Containers at the Edge of AI with Phil Estes

On episode 41 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Phil Estes. They explore why the definition of a container remains surprisingly fuzzy, ho

Ep. #40, Terminal Innovation in the AI Era with Orhun Parmaksiz

On episode 40 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Orhun Parmaksiz to explore Ratty, his experimental GPU-rendered terminal emulator that co

Ep. #39, Agents Take the Wheel with Zach Smith

On episode 39 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Zach Smith, creator of Kplane, about rethinking Kubernetes for an AI-driven future. Zach exp

Ep. #38, Reproducible Infrastructure with Graham Christensen

On episode 38 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Graham Christensen, CEO of Determinate Systems, about the evolution of the Nix ecosystem and

Ep. #37, Is AI Killing Open Source Software? with Stormy Peters

On episode 37 of Open Source Ready, Brian and John speak with Stormy Peters about the evolving relationship between AI and open source software. Together, they unpack the

Ep. #36, Managing AI Coding Agents with Jesse Vincent

On episode 36 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Jesse Vincent. They explore how Jesse’s Superpowers project turns AI coding tools into st

Ep. #35, The Evolution of MCP with Den Delimarsky of Anthropic

On episode 35 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Den Delimarsky. They explore the rapid evolution of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), fro

Ep. #34, Technical Founders in the AI Era with Sunil Dhaliwal

On episode 34 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Sunil Dhaliwal to explore how AI is reshaping open source and startup building. They disc

Ep. #33, Retiring Ingress NGINX with James Strong & Marco Ebert

On episode 33 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with James Strong and Marco Ebert. They discuss the retirement of Ingress NGINX, one of the mo

Ep. #32, Rewriting SQLite for the AI Era with Glauber Costa

On episode 32 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Glauber Costa to explore Turso, a Rust-based rewrite of SQLite built for the AI era. They

Ep. #31, Developer-First Data Engineering with dltHub

In episode 31 of Open Source Ready, Brian and John sit down with Matthaus Krzykowski, Thierry Jean, and Elvis Kahoro to explore how dlt and dltHub are changing the way de

Ep. #30, Inside Unikraft and Unikernels with Felipe Huici

On episode 30 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Felipe Huici to explore Unikraft and the growing role of unikernels in modern cloud infra

Ep. #29, Building ASCII Motion with Cameron Foxly

On episode 29 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Cameron Foxly to talk about ASCII Motion, an open source tool for creating animated ASCII

Ep. #28, 2025: Year In Review

On episode 28 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride reflect on the biggest themes that shaped open source and AI in 2025. From sustainability and security

Ep. #27, Rethinking AI Evals with Adam Hevenor

On episode 27 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Adam Hevenor, creator of Vibecheck. Together they explore the fundamentals of evals, how tea

Ep. #26, The Economics of AI Coding with Quinn Slack

In episode 26 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Quinn Slack. They explore how Sourcegraph built Amp, why unconstrained coding agents repr

Ep. #25, Death of the Web Browser with Rachel-Lee Nabors

In episode 25 of Open Source Ready, Brian and John sit down with Rachel-Lee Nabors. They explore how AI agents are reshaping the web, from the decline of traditional brow