Old School New Tech Returns: Live Format, MUXI Agent Server, and Open Source Licensing Debate

The host relaunches his podcast Old School New Tech in a live, no-edit format to reduce production overhead and avoid “talking to himself,” introducing an AI co-host, Muximus, built on his agent infrastructure project MUXI. He explains he paused the podcast for a year while writing the free book "Production Grade Agentic AI" and building MUXI (a production agent server), Cloop (an autonomous engineering control plane), and working for his software agency Automaze. 

Discussing MUXI, he argues for treating agents as reusable server primitives rather than repeatedly rebuilding frameworks, and highlights key failure modes: observability/traceability/debuggability and LLM hallucinations, addressed via extensive observability events and SOP-driven verification, with a UI planned. They also debate licensing, explaining Elastic License v2’s SaaS restrictions to prevent hyperscalers from reselling hosted versions, and propose a “fair source”-like category. 

Future episodes will feature live debates on shifting from software teams to software systems.

00:00 Podcast Relaunch Intro
01:03 Live Format and Co-Host
01:56 What I've Been Building
03:39 Meet Muximus
04:54 Why Build MUXI
07:01 Failure Modes and Observability
09:12 Screen Share and Request Lifecycle
10:08 Open Source Licensing Debate
17:21 Future Episodes and Sign Off
18:47 Tech Demo
20:50 Full Circle Closing

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