The New, New Kingmakers: Agents, Developers, and the Future of Software with Stephen O'Grady

Brandon interviews Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, about his 2013 book *The New Kingmakers* and his recent follow-up, "Agents: The new, New Kingmakers." O'Grady explains that the original thesis was simple: developers had gone from an afterthought in technology purchasing to the group whose choices determined what got used, driven first by open source (the LAMP stack, Linux) and then by cloud services like S3 and EC2 that removed the need to ask for budget. The t...