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Daigle: Replacing pull requests is hard because code review codifies social trust
“I think the reason why there's not a single answer is ultimately we're trying to codify trust. We're trying to say like, okay, if Sean reviews this, I'm going to trust it because you're Sean or you're the senior dev or you're the whatever. And right now when w…”
Daigle: Using AI to build running apps qualifies you as a developer
“If you create code, if you have an idea and you create it into some way of like, I'm going to run it and use the app right now, you may still use AI in that moment, but that's okay. At some point you're going to do the next thing.”
Daigle: Operating systems must evolve because autonomous AI agents now use them
“Operating systems need to look different than they looked five years ago because it's not just you using them anymore.”
Daigle: LLMs are most valuable for retrospective workflow analysis
“I find AI in like what most of this like launch here is, is actually like less building forward. It's actually like. A recursive loop backwards. I'm always looking at what had happened first, like go back through the week and tell me what we did, what worked, …”
Daigle: Domain-specific prompt permutations are essential to avoid obvious AI output
“The interesting matrix problem when we go from like a developer set of concerns to all kinds of different professions is that what that word means to me is different than it means to you is different than it means to the, you know, analyst or the salesperson. …”
Daigle: Plain English modification of AI skills is a transformative paradigm
“There's just something more magical about getting a response back and being like, that's not right, and then you just crack the skill open, you just type English words, you know, and it's different. That, that, that building block is just I think very unique.”
Daigle: AI shifts chief of staff role to human connection
“It's not that the jobs, like the roles don't all go away. They just change, you know? And so, yeah, I don't have someone spending all their time building out slides for me in presentations. Cause I don't need that anymore, but now I need that person that is ab…”
Daigle: Every security enhancement made to NPM breaks many developers' workflows
“Every move that we make to make it more secure will break a lot of people.”
Daigle: GitHub stars and commit counts remain fundamentally gamifiable despite anti-abuse efforts
“I think the thing that I don't love about stars or commit counts or anything else is like, ultimately, even with all of the various like abuse and de-spamming and deduplication work that we do or anti-abuse, you know, work that we do, these are all like not ac…”
Daigle: GitHub Spark's real value is easy runtime, not simple packaging
“What we learned with things like Spark is that really the value of Spark for most devs is, like, easy runtime. And you may have a runtime or a host that you're going to use for that, or you just build something and run it. But like the package of making that l…”