AI Code Generation
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Jain: Massive AI-generated codebases become unmaintainable over time
“When you write code, for example, with AI you know, we, you know, you can write like, you know, a million lines of code but it becomes incredibly hard to actually maintain it and understand it and manage it over time.”
Joelle Pineau: AI Code Generation Quality Will Be Excellent in 10 Years
“So you think of code generation, like right now we're in the phase we were for image 10 years ago. Yes, there's a lot of bad code that's getting generated. There's a lot of code that will get thrown away, but wait another 10 years and I think the quality of th…”
Masad: Vibe-coded software works 80% to 90% of the time
“So you are communicating the business goals that you're, you intend to create, and the system is building this on your behalf, and if the vibes are correct, and if you can test it and feel like it's working, you can trust that it works, and you know, 80, 90% o…”
FirstMark survey: 82% of developers use AI to write code
“We've seen a 30 to 50% faster throughput. We've seen a 12% increase in PR merges. This is a really important compounding stat here on the bottom left, which is a 17% increase in the amount of time folks are spending on roadmap versus maintenance and keeping th…”
Walsher: Code test flakiness is skyrocketing due to AI code generation
“We're just seeing like flakiness generally across code skyrocketing.”
Bornstein: AI coding tool prices are decoupling from underlying model costs
“Code, you can somewhat see the decoupling of price from the underlying technology now, because there's very clear, like it really works. There's very clear ROI to all of the to people who use it.”
Taylor: Generating AI code in human-designed programming languages is a local maximum
“It feels like a local maximum in a really obvious way to me, which is you have a bunch of code written by people written in programming languages that were designed to make it easy for people to tell a computer what to do.”
Lodge: AI code generation mirrors the shift from assembly to compiled languages
“The analogy I like to make is, it's kind of like, ah, the shift, you know, 30, ah, 35 years ago from sort of assembly language to compiled languages, right? So what you did as a developer really changed”