Dev Interrupted
Dev Interrupted
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Inference is the new 401k matching and what we’re learning from AI-related outages
21 minutes Posted Mar 13, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
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Are we heading toward a bizarre future where your engineering salary is paid in AI compute tokens instead of cash? Andrew and Ben tackle the latest tech industry shakeups, starting with Meta's acquisition of Moltbook and the controversial idea of making inference limits a core employee benefit. They also break down Charlie Guo's harness engineering playbook, the growing pains behind recent AWS AI-driven outages, and the toxic pressure to constantly run dozens of autonomous agents. Finally, th...