Before The Commit

In this episode, the hosts discuss the latest news and trends in AI, focusing on LLM caching, a new EU regulation on AI-generated code, the changing landscape for Stack Overflow, and a recent AI security vulnerability. The hosts explain LLM caching as a technique to boost efficiency and cut costs for AI providers and developers. It involves saving parts of a prompt that are sent repeatedly, such a...

Hosts Dustin Hillgartner and Danny Gershman discuss securing large language models (LLMs) amid rising "shadow AI" risks, where employees use unmonitored tools like ChatGPT, leading to unintentional data spills (e.g., sensitive info, code). Echoing shadow IT, they stress education, policies, and multi-layered defenses over bans, as prohibition drives underground use—studies show ~40% of workers adm...

This episode discussion AI coding topics, starting with MCP ("Model Context Protocol"), an open-source framework by Anthropic for reflective APIs. MCP enables LLMs to self-discover and use external capabilities dynamically, bypassing traditional API integration. It comprises four primitives: - **Resources**: Read-only data access (e.g., databases, files) via path-like queries, ensuring security by...

Before the Commit Episode 5 Summary Hosts Dustin Hillgartner and co-host discuss Amazon's Kiro (pronounced "Kira Code" or "Cairo Code"), AWS history, AI coding security, and news on AI browsers and emotional distress. AWS Origins and AI Impact: Amazon started as a 2000s bookstore; hosts recall buying used textbooks. To scale, it built data centers, launching AWS in 2006 with S3 (storage) and EC2 (...

In this episode of Before the Commit , the hosts dive deep into the evolving landscape of software development, automation, and AI’s role in reshaping industries beyond tech. The discussion spans GitHub Actions with Cloud Code, the challenges of technical debt in an AI-driven era, the evolution of agile practices, and the disruptive effects of AI in creative fields like music and film. The convers...

In episode three of "Before the Commit," the hosts delve into a detailed comparison of AI coding assistants, the implications of the new GPT-5 model, the evolution of search optimization, and a plausible AI-related security threat. The discussion opens with a deep dive into Claude Code , which one host now uses almost exclusively over Cursor . While Cursor is a polished IDE, Claude Code is a more...

🎧 Before the Commit – Episode 2 The Future of Coding Isn’t Coming — It’s Already Here. In this episode, we dive into the cutting edge of agent-powered development with Cursor’s new background agents — are we on the verge of coding without ever opening an IDE? Can AI truly handle the dev work while you're at a baseball game? We explore how top tools like Grok 4 and Claude are changing the game, di...

Kilo Code, Cloudflare Blocks, and Apple Intelligence Shifts