Why Agents are Driving Software Development to the Cloud

This episode is brought to you by @hyperbolic-labs and the@mlflowossteam. Check out more information at hyperbolic.ai and MLflow.org. Why AI Coding Agents Are Moving to the Cloud — With Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp Zach Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Warp, the AI-native terminal and agentic development platform trusted by over a million developers. Before Warp, Zach was a product lead at Google on Google Docs — giving him a uniquely deep intuition for what it means to build truly collaborative developer tools at scale. Why Agents are Driving Software Development to the Cloud // MLOps Podcast #371 with Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp What we cover: 🏗️ Why agents belong in the cloud, not local sandboxes — Zach breaks down why the "set up a local dev box for your agent" approach is fundamentally flawed and what cloud-native agent execution actually looks like in practice. 🚀 GitHub is losing collaborative code review — One of the episode's sharpest takes: the hero features of GitHub, like collaborative code review, are migrating into agent workbenches. Zach explains why this shift is structural, not cyclical. 📱 "Just-in-time apps" are replacing SaaS — The era of long-lived, learn-to-use-it software may be ending. Zach argues that agents will generate ephemeral, purpose-built interfaces on demand — and why most current app categories are at risk. 🤖 Introducing Oz — Warp's cloud orchestration platform — A first look at how Oz works, how Demetrios is already using it to automate podcast production, and what multi-agent orchestration looks like in a real team environment. 👁️ Agent observability and why it matters — Debugging, compliance, context management, and handoff/steering: Zach outlines the three pillars every engineering team needs before trusting agents with production work. 🔐 Agent chaos is real — access control for AI — Why giving agents too much context is just as dangerous as giving them too little, and how Warp thinks about scoped agent permissions as you scale.