{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Old School / New Tech","title":"E01: AI and the Open Source Frontier (Live and Unedited)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/9dad9ab2\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1335,"description":"Old School New Tech Returns: Live Format, MUXI Agent Server, and Open Source Licensing Debate\nThe host relaunches his podcast Old School New Tech in a live, no-edit format to reduce production overhead and avoid “talking to himself,” introducing an AI co-host, Muximus, built on his agent infrastructure project MUXI. He explains he paused the podcast for a year while writing the free book \"Production Grade Agentic AI\" and building MUXI (a production agent server), Cloop (an autonomous engineering control plane), and working for his software agency Automaze. \nDiscussing MUXI, he argues for treating agents as reusable server primitives rather than repeatedly rebuilding frameworks, and highlights key failure modes: observability/traceability/debuggability and LLM hallucinations, addressed via extensive observability events and SOP-driven verification, with a UI planned. They also debate licensing, explaining Elastic License v2’s SaaS restrictions to prevent hyperscalers from reselling hosted versions, and propose a “fair source”-like category. \nFuture episodes will feature live debates on shifting from software teams to software systems.\n00:00 Podcast Relaunch Intro\n01:03 Live Format and Co-Host\n01:56 What I've Been Building\n03:39 Meet Muximus\n04:54 Why Build MUXI\n07:01 Failure Modes and Observability\n09:12 Screen Share and Request Lifecycle\n10:08 Open Source Licensing Debate\n17:21 Future Episodes and Sign Off\n18:47 Tech Demo\n20:50 Full Circle Closing\n\n-----\nOld School / New Tech is produced by VarOps.\nSubscribe to the newsletter – the written version of this show, weekly: varops.com\nRead the books – Company-Scale Agentic AI (for operators and the C-suite) and Production-Grade Agentic AI (for engineers): varops.com/books\nWork with us – VarOps installs resident AI inside mid-market companies. It runs where your work already happens, sees the whole operation, and what it learns belongs to you: varops.com/transform","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/13nrINn33mdG7k8LoP1Ez_oYKpPxbcHmR2r_rrXw8jQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YTRj/ZGQ0Y2RkZDdmMGY4/NzdjYjgxNjI4OWQ5/YTdkYS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}