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“And they just tend to see the very low probability of that event and therefore tend to kind of ignore cut corners. You know, obviously all of these are measures which are under the hood, which a customer wouldn't immediately notice the absence of unless, unles…”

“Because I have been on the developer side, I exactly know developer doesn't want to go out of Slack. Developer doesn't want to go out of Jira, right? And they hate the tools that security people tell.”

“Going out and finding a realtor who represents developers in that area so that realtor knows how to underwrite those deals and can give you real, real guidance. Not the realtor that you like the best, not the realtor that sold the most homes in that area, but …”

“In fact, I think we'll see more harnesses come up in the future because it's a way of building a user experience on top of models. It's a way for developers who are not model labs to own a user relationship, and that is just going to be incredibly valuable for…”

“They're gonna pick the easiest way in, and the lowest hanging fruit now has become, you know, just publishing malware to public registries because they know that there's no vetting happening and, you know, developers are likely to install them.”

“People are starting to use code these models, not just for code, not just like code autocomplete, but actually writing long form code. And it's that an opportunity for us to train, you know, Opus three to be better at. And it ended up being a relatively smalle…”

“We saw like literally, I mean, absolutely excellent developers, like not beginners, but people rebuild whole systems in a couple of days alone that were absolutely amazing. Things that would have been possible, but, you know, done by a team of six, over six mo…”

“And when I look at it at Atlassian, I think that the customers are the ones that are more likely to build things with code code, right? Because with code code, because they are developers, right? So I'm always in, in a bit of a concern there because I'm like, …”

“Developers used to be kings because they held the keys to the kingdom with their development skills, but now this is gone. The kings and queens are now content creators. This is the future.”

“Designers are giving us the feedback that we used to get from developers now.”

“In fact, they'll discount anything you say anyway. So if you tell them, ah, you know, we're going to be a billion dollar company, they'll probably think, well, oh, well, they'll only be a five hundred million dollar company. You say ten billion, they'll probab…”

“If you give a developer who's not a product person a feature, and you say, build content snippets that people can insert into their emails, you know, if your app sends emails for people, they will build it very literally, and it will not be very elegant nor in…”

“There are people that are developers, there are people that are AI native developers, and they're not one and the same, right? There is a transition happening, but they're still not one and the same.”

“She highlighted the trend of developers whispering to their AI. So if you go into an office of a startup, you shall see many a whispering.”

“The code anywhere product had no enterprise use case value. It was all single developer value and single developers do not want to pay for these things.”

“Cursor Codex by OpenAI and Copilot by Microsoft, they have all sold to the enterprises. But developers are not using them.”

“People are not really interested in evals, you know, like evals are not sexy. Like no one's excited to do evals these days, right?”

“And I think that coming up for the next couple of, maybe the next few months, let's say, I'm not a clairvoyant, that the inversion of control is going to be really important, where you put more control in the hands of the developer and less in the harness.”

“So at some point in 20, 23 we just made it an explicit goal of like, we're not going after developers.”

“I always say developers are the most disloyal users there are. And they're also constantly trying to see if any product tried to keep them without portability, they will also not use that.”

“I mean, we absolutely saw that investment Almost across the board was front-loaded into the first half of twenty-twenty-five, and so that's a reflection of the desire in many ways by developers to achieve certain safe harbor milestones so that they essentially…”

“And one of the things that we're learning is like 50% of developers switch model families on a daily basis and 95% of developers switch models on a daily basis.”

“People like don't really edit files, hand code anymore. And so we want to build for where that's going and not where it's been.”

“Most of the developers who had gotten started with projects in the 2000 Kind of gave up. They started things thinking these were going to be five-year projects, and they were 10 plus years in, and many of them hadn't broken ground yet.”

“The two things that I think made it work is, one, the product It's much more visual and easy to people to see the value right away, and it's giving like a better wow effect. And the second thing is reduction of the friction. So let's say you don't need to prov…”

“Developers really appreciate open source because they can test it with no, like really sign up and things that they don't like.”

“There's like 10 wizards in the world. And then everything else is done by machines. And then consumers are now just like writing software for themselves that happened to be communally updating it, but they're not developers anymore. They're just like participa…”

“They've been winning the Vibe War with developers, and they've been winning the Vibe War on X, and now it feels like they're about to win the Vibe War.”

“I think they tripled the number of developers on their platform in the last four months or three to four months of the year.”

“I find that the people who have only written code, have never worked on a team, have never had to get into a code base that they've never seen before. It's like they're code blind, and they've only experienced the way they do it, and they have these really str…”

“They don't really understand that apartments are actually constrained and the taxes and the pension of these states and the constraint of not being able to build them fast enough is causing the prices to rise. It's not the greedy developer that's causing the p…”

“The reason that securing cloud applications is so hard is because the people who can actually solve the problems are the developers. They own the infrastructure. But security owns the risk.”

“Like, it feels like it's actually, you can work on even more stuff now, so actually people are going to get worse off feeling like they should be really productive, but actually feeling like, I've done absolutely nothing this week except for I tried to do thes…”

“We had a lot of really big developers who weren't making their rental payments and were owing us more and more money, and a lot of them went bankrupt.”

“If you don't follow, Where developers are going it's hard to sort of be relevant in terms of tech platforms, and then you really need to understand the new workload in order to build a tech platform. Those are the two things that at least I've kept, and so the…”

“It's actually like a typical thing to like, to do prototypes fast to experiment, to make, to like, see what works, what's not, how it looks, how it's, how to implement it. But then like the final production version actually like still needs real developers to …”

“I actually think you're going to see a proliferation of developers. I think you're going to see Way more developers in, in the future. I think the job role will change for sure. I think it's not going to stay the same, but I think you're going to see way more.”

“Like we are a ways off from developers being able to use these things and high velocity, important workloads. And they certainly can't do really advanced things with photo, video, these types of things, even large context windows. Like we're just, we're way of…”

“So a good developer, what they would do here, an experienced one, they will put down 10% of the purchase price, maybe 15, but at this, at these prices, they will let you get away with 10% of the purchase price, and you're borrowing a hundred percent of the ren…”

“And I do suggest that people not try and use the model to offload thinking. It should enhance your thinking or else like you'll, you'll get worse over time and you won't know when the model is quality, whether it's outputting quality or not. If you don't know …”

“And then those guys that built their careers on the last wave we invented are hating on this new wave. It's just, you know, people never change.”

“I think the future here is we're going to be paying good developers a heck of a lot more you know, we'll probably spend less on our R and D overall, but the good developers will make a ton more.”

“Product people have to be in the room and they have to be involved in sort of doing this. You know, usually a developer is not suited to do this, especially if it's not a coding application.”

“Coding agents are fundamentally very different than other AI products because the developer is the domain expert. So you can short circuit a lot of things, and also the developer is using it all day long.”

“Developers don't have money to buy products at a company. I mean, maybe some do, but at an enterprise, it's not the developer that makes a purchasing decision.”

“The first part developers do over and over and over and over and I say, I don't know, maybe 49 out of 50 times it just doesn't work. They're not very good. Zero to one marketing is really, is also really hard, you know, and it often takes founder activation en…”

“Ask any great developer, how excited are you to take over a vibe coded app? You're going to hear spaghetti code. Don't want to own it. Don't want to fix it. They don't want to do it.”

“Yeah, at this point, like, more than a 100,000 developers.”

“Yeah, we have around two million developers on the platform.”

“I think many people have been accelerated more than two X by this technology already. And the technology is only going to get better. So I think comparing it to the developer salary is the right way to look at it.”

“We're very deaf focused. So we're really intensely obsessed about developers doing their thing. And right now are really focused hard to sort of What we say left of the commit, but it doesn't have to, or left of it going to production at this point”

“50% of developers according to surveys are now fine tuning.”

“Increasingly is the market to be a good LLM provider, the main market seems to be consumer. You're just not that motivated to, like, help developers.”

“Cursor is very clear, like cursor's on the path to also probably create some type of agent platform, right? For developers. So that'll be like a smaller ecosystem to play in for some products.”

“Developers don't want it cause it's already done and done poorly. Okay. That wipes them out.”

“Because you don't want to just have one instance of the model operating. You want to have multiple, right? You want to be a manager of not an agent, but of agents.”

“But if you're trying to build a company that creates a really great living for you, even, you know, you can, Potentially get rich from it. You, I think we're almost there where you can do it on your own without any developers.”

“In fact, it's grown up and now it's the OpenAI platform with, I don't know, four million developers, I think.”

“The cloud, I mean, initially Amazon AWS did not change The abstraction of a virtual machine but everything else, the business model changed, and the most important change that AWS brought about was it made infrastructure available to developers without IT. Tha…”

“I think every developer at a top tech company growing is going to give them 10,000 dollars a month of AI credits. Everyone's going to get 10,000, not 200, which is what we're thinking. We thought that was a lot a couple months ago. They're all going to get 10,…”