AI coding tools

7 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Dec 17, 2023 by Beyang Liu · across every show →

Everything said about AI coding tools, oldest first

Dec 17, 2023 positive
Insight
Liu: Deterministic graph context eliminates common AI code completion type errors
“Turns out that works really well. Like, you can eliminate a lot of type errors that, that AI coding tools make just by pulling in that context.”
Beyang Liu Dec 17, 2023 ▶ 56:58 The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
Jun 13, 2025 neutral
Insight
AI coding assistants excel at boilerplate, not inventing new algorithms
“People within the company are dabbling with cloud code and some of the stuff, and so I don't have personal experience with that, but for me, I found that it's mostly, it is very useful, but it's really about boilerplate, and so it's not about inventing new alg…”
Chris Lattner Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 1:10:18 The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
Aug 19, 2025 negative
Opinion
Huber: No AI coding tools are particularly good at Rust
“So far we've still not found that really any AI coding tools are particularly good at rust though.”
Jeff Huber Aug 19, 2025 ▶ 55:54 Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Insight
Yi Tay: AI Tools Act as a Team Productivity Aura Rather Than Replacing Engineers
“These things are not like going to replace one person as it is, but more like a passive aura that buffs everybody.”
Yi Tay Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 41:54 Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
Feb 27, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Becker: Overly Bullish AI Developer Speedup Estimates Are Inflated
“I do think that very bullish estimates of speed up today are, you know, to some extent inflated by what we document in that original paper, that people's expectations of speed up tend to be too optimistic, it seems. They also tend to be inflated, I think, by n…”
Joel Becker Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 20:08 Measuring Exponential Trends Rising (in AI) — Joel Becker, METR
May 2, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Outcome-driven engineers will thrive; craft-focused coders will struggle in the AI era
“The people that like coding because of what, how powerful it is, those people will thrive in, in this era. And I think people who like coding for the craft of coding will Probably have a bad time because that's not gonna be like the biggest thing in coding any…”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 54:52 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
May 20, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Cooper: Developers writing code by hand instead of reviewing AI are wrong
“If you're writing code by hand, you are doing this wrong, right? Like, they're code, the tools are good enough at this point, like, that you move extremely, extremely quickly, and like, yes, there are issues and pain points and all these other things but, You …”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 1:07:37 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
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