Ryan hosts SmartBear’s VP of AI and Architecture Fitz Nowlan to explore how we’re moving away from old assumptions about software development, the challenges of testing MCP servers as LLM-driven agents introduce non-determinism that breaks tradition, and how data locality and data construction are becoming more valuable when source code is so easy to generate.Episode notes:&nbsp;<a href="https://smartbear.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SmartBear</a> gives devs tools for application performance monitoring, software development, software testing, and API management—all at AI speed and scale.Connect with Fitz on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/fitz-nowlan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> and email him at <a href="mailto:FitzNowlan@SmartBear.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FitzNowlan@SmartBear.com</a>&nbsp;Congrats to Great Answer winner <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/721079/alexander" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alexander</a> for winning the badge for their answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11584159/is-there-a-way-to-make-runnables-run-throw-an-exception" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Is there a way to make Runnable's run() throw an exception?</a>.<a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/03/31/how-can-you-test-your-code-when-you-don-t-know-what-s-in-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TRANSCRIPT</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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