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The AI Native Dev – from Copilot today to AI Native Software Development tomorrow

Welcome to The AI Native Developer, hosted by Guy Podjarny and Simon Maple. Join us as we explore and help shape the future of software development through the lens of AI. In this new paradigm of AI Native Software Development, we delve into how AI is transforming the way we build software, from tools and practices to the very structure of development teams.

Our target audience includes developers and development leaders eager to stay ahead of the curve. If you’re passionate about the future of software development and curious about how to leverage AI to build effective teams and groundbreaking software, this podcast is for you.

Each week, we bring you insights into the latest AI tools and best practices, keeping you up-to-date with the cutting-edge advancements in the industry. Additionally, every two weeks, we present deep dives with experts and leaders in the AI and software development space, offering a glimpse into the future of AI development.

Tune in to discover how AI will revolutionize your workflows, roles, and organizations. Get inspired by the latest tools and best practices, and prepare to be part of the next generation of software development.

Latest Episodes:

Why Every Developer needs to know about WebMCP Now Mar 31, 2026

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An agent cannot read your website. And that needs to change.
In this episode of AI Native Dev, Guy Podjarny sits down with Maximiliano Firtman, 30-year web developer and author of 14 books, to talk about what building for the web looks like when traffic comes from agents and humans both.
They get into:

why AI agents taking screenshots of your website is inefficient and expensive
what Web MCP is and how it gives agents a direct API into your website
how a 200MB Apple model running offline is opening up a whole new category of web apps
why every vibe coded app is a web app and what that means for the future of the web

Your next visitor might not be human. Are you ready for that?
Connect with us here:

Maximiliano Firtman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/firtman/?locale=es
Guy Podjarny: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/guypo
Tessl: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesslio/

Stop Maintaining Your Code. Start Replacing It Mar 24, 2026

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"The code that we have is a liability. The system is the asset we're building."
Chad Fowler, VC at Blue Yard Capital and former CTO at Wunderlist, sits down with Guy Podjarny to discuss the Phoenix Architecture: software designed to be replaced rather than maintained.
In this episode:
• why was the code written by Chad never longer than a page
• how he replaced 70% of a codebase in 3 months and cut costs by 75%
• shipping AI code no human ever reviewed, and how to make it safe
• the shadow specs your agents are making without you
• why your system should work with the worst LLM, not just the best
If you're still thinking about your codebase the old way, this one will change that.
Connect with us here:

Chad Fowler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fowlerchad/
Blue Yard Capital: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blueyard-capital/
Guy Podjarny: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/guypo
Tessl: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesslio/

We Scanned 3,984 Skills — 1 in 7 Can Hack Your Machine Mar 17, 2026

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Most developers install skills without reading what's inside them. But that's exactly what attackers are counting on.
Simon Maple sits down with Brian Vermeer from Snyk at DevNexus to get into the security risk hiding inside the skills and MCPs running on your local machine. They scanned over 4,000 skills and found that 1 in 7 had at least one critical security vulnerability.
Here’s what you need to know:

Why prompting your agent to write secure code doesn't make it secure
How a trusted skill can update silently and start offloading your credentials
What prompt injection actually looks like inside a skill file
Why vibe coding makes the attack surface bigger, not smaller
How the Snyk agent scan catches what you'd never spot manually

Every skill on the Tessl registry now has a Snyk security scan attached. Check before you install.
Connect with us here:
Simon Maple: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmaple/
Brian Vermeer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer/
Snyk: https://www.linkedin.com/company/snyk/
Tessl: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesslio/

The Greatest Time to Build a Startup (The AI-Native Advantage) Mar 10, 2026

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The best agentic developers throw away their agent's work without guilt, run three agents at once and only use one, and treat their AI like a junior developer they genuinely dislike. It sounds wrong. It works.
Daniel Jones, Head of Product at re:cinq, has upskilled hundreds of developers across Northern Europe's largest enterprises. In this episode he joins Simon Maple to share the counterintuitive habits, hard data, and practical frameworks behind high-performing agentic development teams.
On the docket:

Why bad engineering practices get worse, not better, with AI agents
The exact conditions that make your agent hallucinate every time
Why your AGENTS.md is quietly working against you
How to manage context before it kills your productivity
What enterprise AI rollout actually looks like at scale
Why the worst managers get the most out of agentic coding

If your team is adding AI and wondering why things aren't getting faster, this episode is for you.
Connect with us here:
Daniel Jones: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieljoneseb/
Simon Maple: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmaple/
Tessl: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesslio/

Why Your Agent Needs Memory, Not Just Context Mar 03, 2026

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Not onboarding your agent is on you.
Richmond Alake, Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle, joins Simon Maple to make the case that most agent failures come down to one thing: memory. Not the model, not the infrastructure. Memory.
On the docket:

why skills are just SOPs your organisation already has written down
the job title that is replacing prompt engineers
file systems vs databases for agent memory (and why one gets you hacked)
the memory trick that makes agents feel actually intelligent
why the agent loop and training loop are about to become one

The developers who figure this out first are going to be very hard to compete with.

Connect with us here:

Richmond Alake: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richmondalake/
Simon Maple: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmaple/
Tessl: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesslio/

Cisco Principal Engineer's Fix for AI Code Security Feb 25, 2026

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Your AI coding agent learned from millions of lines of code, including insecure ones. That means by default, it can write vulnerable code too.
So how do you fix that?
John Groetzinger, Principal Engineer at Cisco, built CodeGuard, a security skills layer that teaches coding agents how to write and review code securely. He tested it against real scenarios.
The result:
84% success rate vs 47% baseline. Nearly 2× improvement.
In this episode we get into:

how CodeGuard works
why Cisco open sourced it
the surprisingly simple method that gets agents to fix their own mistakes

Try CodeGuard: cisco/software-security on the Tessl registry.
Connect with us here:
John Groetzinger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-groetzinger/
Cisco: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco/
Simon Maple: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmaple/
Tessl: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesslio/

Why Context Beats Every Prompt You'll Ever Write Feb 17, 2026

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Most teams think agentic dev is about writing better prompts. It's not.
Guy Podjarny and Simon Maple explain why managing context, not crafting prompts, is what separates teams that scale with agents from teams that don't. They walk through a practical framework for building, evaluating, and distributing the context your agents actually need.
In this episode:
• Why agents fail without structured context about your internal platform
• The 3 context layers: policies, platform docs, and application context
• How to build regression evals and torture tests for your agents
• The Context Development Lifecycle (CDLC) - a new loop for agentic dev
Your agents are only as good as the context you give them.

From IBM Acquisition to AI-Native Observability | Dash0 CEO Feb 10, 2026

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"Charts are good for users, not good for agents. Agents look at the underlying data and do deep analysis."
Mirko Novakovic built Instana, sold it to IBM, and now he's building Dash0, rethinking observability for agents, not humans.
In conversation with Guy Podjarny, he explains:
• why OpenTelemetry turned out to be perfect for AI
• how UX changes when agents are your primary users
• why interactive collaboration beats static chat outputs
• the survival question for observability vendors in the AI era
Only 2-3 people in most companies can truly debug production. That knowledge lives in their heads and disappears when they leave. Mirko's betting agents will change that.
Connect with us here:
Mirko Novakovic: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirkonovakovic/
Dash0: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dash0hq/
Guy Podjarny: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guypo/
Tessl: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesslio/

The End of Fragmented Agent Context Feb 03, 2026

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One skill took coding success from 28% to 71%. Another made things worse.
Guy Podjarny and Simon Maple tested 1000+ agent skills and reveal which ones actually work, which hurt performance, and why anecdotal evidence isn't enough anymore.
Tessl Skills Registry is the first package manager for agent skills with built-in evaluations, versioning, and lifecycle management. Explore tested skills and see real performance data: https://tessl.io/registry
On the docket:
• Claude roasted Anthropic's own skill with a 27% score ("monolithic wall of text")
• Why some popular skills actually decrease agent performance
• How Tessl is bringing package managers and evals to agent skills
Whether you're creating your first skill or managing them across your dev team, this is your roadmap for making agent skills actually work.
Connect with us here:
1. Guy Podjarny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/guypo/?originalSubdomain=uk
2. Simon Maple - https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmaple/
3. Tessl - https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesslio/
4. AI Native Dev - https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/ai-native-dev/

The Developer Skills That Will Actually Survive AI Jan 27, 2026

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“You have to prioritize between the thing you want to do and the thing that actually is driving the business, that’s what really big companies are fighting every single day.”
As former CEO of GitHub and now a startup founder again, Thomas Dohmke brings a rare, inside-out perspective on innovation across both worlds.
In conversation with Guy Podjarny, he explains:
• why startups and incumbents fight in different weight classes
• why humans shouldn’t sit in every feedback loop as agents scale
• the importance of learning as a core skill for future developers
AI Native Dev, powered by Tessl and our global dev community, is your go-to podcast for solutions in software development in the age of AI. Tune in as we engage with engineers, founders, and open-source innovators to talk all things AI, security, and development.
Connect with us here:
1. Thomas Dohmke- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtom/
2. Guy Podjarny- https://www.linkedin.com/in/guypo/
3. Tessl- https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesslio/
4. AI Native Dev- https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/ai-native-dev/

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