The people who build, explain, and fund the tools developers actually use.
Hosted by Zeeshan
The Show
Every guest sits somewhere on the same arc: the distance between a thing that works and a thing that gets adopted. We get into where that gap actually lives — the unglamorous middle between a clean demo and real usage, and the craft of explaining hard technical work without dumbing it down.
No press-tour answers, no positioning. Two people who’ve shipped things, talking about how the work really happens — across the engineers who build, the advocates who explain, and the investors who fund them.
Episodes
▶Episode 02 · Developer Relations Lead, Appwrite
What does it take to lower the bar so far that anyone with an idea can ship — and still trust what they built? The SDKs, the docs, the backend primitives behind that access, the line between AI-assisted building and vibe coding, and then the uncomfortable part: hand an agent the same tools, the same prompt, the same everything, and it still makes different calls run to run.
▶Episode 01 · Developer Advocate, AWS
What does it actually take to advocate for technology you’ve run in production yourself? Five years in the trenches of cloud infra — EKS, Terraform, CI/CD — then the turn to agents: once you’ve sandboxed an AI agent in a microVM, containment is solved, but what about correctness?
Upcoming
Ep 03
Guest TBA
Founder · Developer tools
Ep 04
Guest TBA
Staff engineer · Infrastructure
Ep 05
Guest TBA
Partner · Early-stage VC
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The Host
Working on verification for the agentic world at EigenCloud — the gap between code that runs safely and code that runs correctly. First Principles is where I sit down with the people figuring out the same thing from every other seat.
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