software industry
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 7, 2025 by Boris Cherny · across every show →
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May 7, 2025 bullish
Cherny: AI prototyping informs engineering decisions faster than writing design docs
“Before I would write a big design doc, and I would think about a problem for a long time before I would build it sometimes for some set of problems, and now I'll just ask quad code to prototype, like, three versions of it, And I'll try the feature and see whic…”
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Stay Sassy EM: Code review will bifurcate into full automation or rigorous discipline
“I think it's either going to go like PR is a totally automated review, and literally there's no human in the loop, and that the tools are good enough, or the entire industry is going to get to, we need to have poor review be like a serious thing that we're not…”
Sep 7, 2026 neutral
Slack: The compressed agent software sector will re-expand into distinct categories
“You've taken like the entire software industry and you've compressed it into this tiny bubble that the only name that people have for it is like agents, but you know that it's going to re-expand again and we're all going to find the lines that exist between th…”