AI coding assistants
5 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2024 by Varun Mohan · across every show →
Everything said about AI coding assistants, oldest first
Dec 13, 2024 positive
Mohan: Explicit user prompting will become an AI coding anti-pattern
“I actually think asking people to do things explicitly is probably going to be more of an anti-pattern if we can actually go and passively suggest the entire change for the user. So almost imagine as the user is using the product that we're going to suggest th…”
Jul 28, 2025 negative
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Ramachandran: Capturing Editor Trajectories Lets AI Infer Intent Without Explicit Prompting
“If we actually understand that trajectory, then our ability for the AI to just be immediately be like, Oh, I understand your intent. This is what you want to do without you having to spell it all out for it. That is one like that kind of like magic would reall…”
Oct 5, 2025 bearish
Agarwal: AI coding assistants will cause uninterpretable outages and endless firefighting
“And so it's pretty clear to us that, you know, and we were starting to use it ourselves and sometimes we didn't understand what the code was doing, but you know, we shipped it. And so it's like, well, if this is clearly, this is going to happen a lot more. And…”