developer

also referred to as: developers

23 statements across 18 episodes · 9 bullish · 5 bearish · 17 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2024 by David Hsu · across every show →

Everything said about developer, oldest first

Feb 7, 2024
Insight
Hsu: Developers prefer modular building blocks over finished end solutions
“I think one huge advantage of some of the developers is that they actually don't, like, developers don't want to be given an end solution. They want to be given the building blocks to themselves to build the end solution.”
David Hsu Feb 7, 2024 ▶ 35:34 The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
Feb 7, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hsu: 95% of Retool customers are developers
“Like, 95% of our customers actually are developers, actually.”
David Hsu Feb 7, 2024 ▶ 15:18 The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Godement: Developers will rely on continuous, automated fine-tuning within years
“The vision we have is, fast forward a couple of years, I think, like, most developers will essentially, like, have an automated, continuous, fine-tuned model. The more, like, you use the model, the more data you pass to the mobile provider, like, the model is …”
Olivier Godement Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 26:46 Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chiang: Coding questions drive 20% to 30% of Chatbot Arena usage
“We do see a lot of like developers come to the site asking polling questions. Only 30%.”
Wei-Lin Chiang Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 10:36 In the Arena: How LMSys changed LLM Benchmarking Forever
Dec 13, 2024 neutral
Insight
Mohan: Developers will never provide complete problem statements to AI
“We believe that developers will never completely pose the problem statement, right? Because the problem statement lives in their head.”
Varun Mohan Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 11:45 Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
Dec 13, 2024 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Mohan: Over 80% of software developers are on Windows
“A lot of people, once again, over 80% of developers are on Windows.”
Varun Mohan Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 38:08 Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
Feb 28, 2025 neutral
Insight
Klein: Developers evaluate tools by design polish and trust in the founder
“As a developer, you think you evaluate a company based on like the API reliability and the P-ninety-five, but a lot of developers say, is the website good? Is the message clear? Do I like trust this founder I'm building my whole feature on?”
Paul Klein Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 11:48 Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
May 29, 2025
Insight
Grinberg: Software cannot change developer habits through product quality alone
“But if you want to change behavior, you can't just assume that the product is going to be so good that everyone's going to immediately get it because with developers, you know, we need to know who we're selling to and developers have very efficient ways of wor…”
Matan Grinberg May 29, 2025 ▶ 45:02 The AI Coding Factory
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Kilpatrick: Google's implicit caching automatically passes cost savings to developers
“Explicit caching is nice. Like there's definitely use cases where it makes sense, but people want implicit caching. So I'm happy passing the cost saving on to developers. You don't have to do anything. It just works right now and you're saving money.”
Logan Kilpatrick Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 4:09 [AIEWF Preview] Gemini in 2025 and Realtime Voice AI
Jun 3, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Hykes: Most developers still code on laptops due to tooling failures
“Most people don't develop in a container still, right? They just develop on their laptop. That's just a failure of tooling.”
Solomon Hykes Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 9:07 [AIEWF Preview] Containing Agent Chaos — Solomon Hykes
Jun 3, 2025 positive
Insight
Software developers are becoming platform engineers for AI agents
“What we're witnessing is developers becoming platform engineers. They're, they have to learn how to enable others to be productive. These others, of course, are AIs. And to do that, they have to give them environments to work in.”
Solomon Hykes Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 4:43 [AIEWF Preview] Containing Agent Chaos — Solomon Hykes
Jul 16, 2025 negative
Insight
Rizwan: AI coding tools should not monetize through inference markups
“Our thesis is inference is not the business. We, yeah, we want to give the end user total transparency into price, into, which I think is like incredibly important to, you know, even get comfortable with the idea of spending as much money as you do. I think th…”
Saoud (Saud) Rizwan Jul 16, 2025 ▶ 55:44 Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
Jul 28, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Mohan: Over 80% of software developers are on Windows
“A lot of people, once again, over 80% of developers are on Windows.”
Varun Mohan Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 2:15:07 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Insight
Mohan: Developers will never completely articulate problem statements to AI
“We believe that developers will never completely pose the problem statement, right? Because the problem statement lives in their head.”
Varun Mohan Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 1:48:55 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Insight
Brockman: Software developers should manage multiple concurrent AI agents instead of one
“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.”
Greg Brockman Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 26:28 Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
Aug 19, 2025 negative
Opinion
Huber: Consumer focus leaves LLM labs unmotivated to help developers
“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.”
Jeff Huber Aug 19, 2025 ▶ 20:20 Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
Sep 1, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Weichel: Ona focuses strictly on pre-production environments over production hosting
“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”
Chris (Christian Weichel) Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 29:19 ⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
Sep 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yurtseven: Fal.ai has around two million developers on its platform
“Yeah, we have around two million developers on the platform.”
Gorkem Yurtseven Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 2:20 A Technical History of Generative Media
Nov 3, 2025 negative
Insight
Offloading thinking to AI tools degrades developers' ability to evaluate code quality
“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 …”
Quentin Anthony Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 46:31 How Zyphra went all-in on AMD + Why Devs feel faster with AI but are slower — with Quentin Anthony
Nov 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ravisankar: Developer workforce will expand significantly in the future
“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.”
Vivek Ravisankar Nov 8, 2025 ▶ 44:56 ⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
Mar 6, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Nelle: Developers do not hand-code or edit files directly anymore
“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.”
Jonas Nelle Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 36:31 Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
May 7, 2026 negative
Opinion
Pocock: Software developers are generally not interested in AI evaluations
“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?”
Matt Pocock May 7, 2026 ▶ 17:07 Senior Dev: This "Grill Me" Prompt Is Going Viral Among Top Engineers
May 7, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pocock: Inversion of control to developers will become critical in AI tooling
“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.”
Matt Pocock May 7, 2026 ▶ 18:07 Senior Dev: This "Grill Me" Prompt Is Going Viral Among Top Engineers
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