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
Jun 13, 2025 neutral
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…”
Aug 19, 2025 negative
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Feb 27, 2026 bearish
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…”
May 2, 2026 positive
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…”
May 20, 2026 bullish
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 …”