Borovik: The two core AI agent challenges are specification and verification
Jed Borovik · ⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview · Nov 10, 2025 · at 38:59
Jed Borovik, Product Lead at Google Labs, discusses the product and engineering paradigms emerging around autonomous AI coding agents like Jules.
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“They're kind of like two problems as these things get better. One is like, how do you specify what you want? And the other one is how do you verify that what you got is what you're.”
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