AI coding tools
12 statements across 12 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2024 by Eric Vishria · across every show →
Everything said about AI coding tools, oldest first
Sep 25, 2024 bullish
Vishria: Replacing Developer Labor With AI Creates 20x More Economic Value
“So if the AI, if you can get AI good enough to eat much more of the 200,000 dollars of value attributed to your software engineer, IT person, it just follows that there's like 20 x more value creation and, like, there will be giant, giant outcomes.”
May 19, 2025 negative
Hacker: AI coding tools perform poorly on large codebases and create unfixable tech debt
“On the software engineering side, I think what they're really good at is going from zero to 80% for a simple app. You know, it's like, it's the replet, the lovable, and then the larger the code base, even the one that generates itself, the larger the code base…”
Jun 20, 2025 neutral
Kansu: Current AI coding tools only boost developer productivity by 10-20%
“I think my read right now is more of the latter. And also the magnitude of multiplication is way lower than like 10 X-ing things. I think it's maybe in the realm of like 10 to 20% more productivity, Of an average engineering capacity.”
Jul 18, 2025 positive
Sep 4, 2025 positive
Sep 15, 2025 bullish
Oct 13, 2025 negative
Oct 16, 2025 negative
Nov 20, 2025 bullish
Dec 18, 2025 bullish
O'Driscoll: Coding tools account for 55% of enterprise AI spend
“Citing the Menlo work, which is really nice, that, you know, 50, 60% of all the end user spend on AI right now is coding and coding related. This is the big kahuna, right? Everything else, even customer support, all the other stuff is, everything else to a rou…”
Feb 16, 2026
Mar 2, 2026
Zinman: AI developer productivity gains create new non-coding engineering bottlenecks
“On one hand, we see increase in personal productivity, but again, there's new bottlenecks you find each time you increase one of those productivities, and basically we're on a journey to increase more and more the output of our R&D team.”