My Favorite AI tools, local models, MCP hacking

🎧 Agentic DevOps Podcast Release

My Favorite AI Terminal, Prompt Injection, and More

(Audio episode only)

Here are some topics from the show

My AI Skeptic Friends are All Nuts, blog post from fly.io by Thomas Ptacek. An interesting set of arguments for why developers should be using AI code generation.
From Toil to Triumph: Harnessing Agentic AI to Streamline Infrastructure as Code, KubeCon London 2025 video by Jody Varney. This was the only talk at the conference that addressed what it truly takes to build a reliable PR review agent. (The talk is 8 months old now, so it's likely gotten easier since.)
The Dark Side of Just Hooking Up AI Agents to GitHub, blog post by Simon Maple from AI Native Dev. GREAT example of how easy it is to accidentally send malicious prompts to someone else's AI (prompt injection.)
Warp 2.0 My new daily terminal. I love the design of having a built-in agent and a shell prompt that dynamically switches between cli commands and agent prompting. Warp 2.0 walkthrough
Container Use project - A good idea for how to ensure your local agents always edit/write changes in a container to reduce the blast radius of project changes. This also allows you to have multiple agents running on the same codebase without interference.
Devstral release in May - Devstral and Qwen-3-Coder seem to be the best two models for local code generation. I can run them on my Mac, and they are designed to fit on a single desktop GPU or Mac. Here is the latest Devstral release and the Qwen-3-Coder. For Mac, I use them from LM Studio, which supports the MLX format that is faster on Mac than GGUF. (I'd use Docker Model Runner, but they don't support the MLX format yet)
SWE Bench for finding the best model + tool combos for AI code generation.

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