Ralph Wiggum goes to Gas Town and the death of the IC

**Andrew Zigler** (0:06)
Welcome to Dev Interrupted, sponsored by LinearB. I'm your host, Andrew Zigler.

**Ben Lloyd Pearson** (0:11)
And I'm your host, Ben Lloyd Pearson.

**Andrew Zigler** (0:13)
And welcome to our first ever Friday edition of Dev Interrupted. And Ben, I was thinking, should we name these Friday episodes something different? Maybe give them their own brand, make them something catchy? Like, okay, here's some ideas. I know, right? So there are some ideas that are already here on the script that I want to call out. So we got the Friday Deployment or the Hotfix. I like the Friday Deploy though. That's definitely a shout out to some of the stuff we've been covering recently about continual merge. But what about Dev Interrupted, Too Interrupted or Too Interrupted Too Furious? Wait, I don't know. I'm maybe seeing a trend here. What do you think, Ben?

**Ben Lloyd Pearson** (0:56)
We're not doing Fast and Furious references, I think. What about The Interruption? This is your Friday interruption on Dev Interrupted.

**Andrew Zigler** (1:04)
Oh, The Interruption. Maybe some of these will stick. If you're listening, if you have a favorite one, please shout out and let us know.
Yeah.

**Ben Lloyd Pearson** (1:12)
If anyone's got great ideas because naming stuff can be hard.
But Andrew, what can our listeners expect by joining this episode? This is the first one we have, we're going to be doing this moving forward. What can people expect from these episodes?

**Andrew Zigler** (1:25)
That's a great question. We get a lot of interest from industry experts who want to come on the show. We're always looking for ways to share more voices. By expanding our news segment and giving it its own home on Friday, we can make that great space possible to bring in more expertise and share them with our audience, connect you with the things that matter. Because really it's a sign of how much Dev Interrupted is growing. That's because of you, our listeners, being a part of our journey and supporting us. We piloted this idea over the summer. Ben, actually, while you were out on a parental leave, I brought in a whole bunch of guest news hosts and we cover all sorts of things from across the industry. The energy was amazing. I want to channel that all year long in 2026 and beyond.
With how fast everything is moving in AI, it'd be really exciting to get people in here more regularly and share ideas faster to talk about what's happening week to week.

**Ben Lloyd Pearson** (2:17)
Yeah. I really loved hearing some fresh voices coming into the show while I was out so that was a really cool experiment to run. Probably some of the people will try to get back on the show.
But I think really what we want to get out of this is that we are getting so much interesting things coming inbound to us, whether it's white papers or reports that companies or researchers are publishing, industry research, LinearB, we do a lot of stuff of our own as well. We just feel like we don't have enough time in the typical episode to give some of this stuff the space that it needs. So I think this will be a great opportunity. Starting out, it will be probably just us too for a lot of these episodes, but over time we want to bring in more expert voices to just bring greater variety and more fresh up-to-date expertise that is breaking and cutting edge news. So listen in if you want to get all sorts of new expertise from the people we bring on.

**Andrew Zigler** (3:18)
Love it. That's actually a perfect transition to our first story of the week because Anthropic reached out to us as part of their launch around Cowork. I want to take a moment to talk about how impactful Claude Cowork is. This is a new feature launched from Claude that allows it to work in a way similar as Claude code, but definitely more geared towards non-technical users. You have access to folders to read, edit, create files and give Claude a little more autonomy over your computer to do tasks related to knowledge work.
This is a pretty exciting announcement. As of today, actually, it's available not just to Claude Max, but to Claude Pro subscribers as well. So be sure if you have a Claude subscription to go check out Claude Cowork. It's an ability for folks that maybe Claude code isn't your best use case. You can still take advantage of the powerful dynamics of working with AI in this way. A fun tidbit too I want to throw in here is that Claude code wrote Claude Cowork. So I think this is a sign of things to come. Ben, what do you think of this?