Reggio: CS students use AI for design docs rather than raw code generation
James Reggio · Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio (acquired for $5B by Capital One!) · Jan 17, 2026 · at 35:26
Brex CTO James Reggio recounts a dinner with graduating college computer science students discussing how they incorporate LLMs into their programming workflows.
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“And I was surprised to hear the consensus was that most people there were using agents to collaborate on like building a design document and like, Collaborating on the architecture of the solution that they want to build, and then they'd be asking it to like emit a, you know, a doc or an implementation plan, but then they'll go and write a lot of the code themselves still. So it's a little bit more of the rubber duck co-architect use case that was most prevalent in that group.”
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