S12 E12: Robert Brennan, OpenHands

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Robert Brennan grew up in Boston and loved it so much that he ended up calling it home again. He spent time in New York between his bookend times, but he enjoys the chill pace and great music of Boston over the fast pace of the big apple. Outside of technology, he likes to read nonfiction and fiction, specifically science fiction. He loves music, and. Has been playing guitar for 25 years now. He frequents the live music scene around Boston, and even lives near a jazz club. Robert observed the release of the first version of Devin a few years ago, which was very exciting to see agent driven development. But he and his co-founders were concerned with who was going to govern how this software was going to get written - and they hypothesized that it should be open source and community driven. This is the creation story of OpenHands. Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mt82fpxl #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Cash App Green, overdraft coverage, borrow, cash back offers and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. * Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.ai Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:55.9	slash code story. We're going to need a like a Kubernetes for agents. We're going to need
1:04.6	a Linux for agents, right? There's got there has to be an open standard for how you define and
1:10.5	drive and monitor these agents at scale,
1:13.5	both within an enterprise and as an individual developer.
1:16.7	And I think Open Hands is the, or the largest open source project that has a full end-to-end
1:22.9	solution there.
1:23.9	It's not just a CLI, right?
1:25.8	It's all the cloud infrastructure you need. It's all the,
1:28.2	all those scalability things, all the sandboxing, et cetera, all the security. That I think is,
1:34.3	I'd like to see Open Hands really become the standard there and have engineers all over the world
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