AI coding agents

“So now we're looking at, holy shit, we spent the last five, six years building all those Lego blocks for knowledge work. If we're just putting it, AI coding agent on top of it, you can have any kind of knowledge, customer software, customer agent for whatever …”

“I think the one that we'll get to over the course of several years is probably something where you don't even look at the code at all. And you're actually just looking at your own product and you're just able to look and specify and say, Hey, you know, This bu…”

“We're just going to see these things get deployed and they're going to be broken. So there's a lot of like AI coding agents out there. There's Cursor, there's, I guess, Windsurf, Devon, Copilot. So all of those tools exist and they can do things right now Like…”

“Would you rather have access could you rather have, give everyone on the team, like very expensive. Coding agent subscriptions, or you get an extra head count, right? Let's say it's like maybe like and almost everyone could say the managers could say head coun…”

“A lot of the time when the coding agent is not doing what you want, it's usually a problem with context and just, like, information that you've given it. It's just either underspecified or there's just not enough information around how to do something availabl…”

“If you get them to write the tests first. You do get better results because they're much less likely to forget to test something or to add bits of code that aren't necessary. And so you could tell them, Write this using test, make sure that you write the test …”

“The problem is the people in the middle. Like if you're mid career, if you haven't made it to sort of super senior engineer yet, but you're not sort of new either. That's the group, which ThoughtWorks resolved work probably in the most trouble right now.”

“The art of having them help you build software, you could deploy to a million people. That's not, that's never going to be easy. That's never going to be trivial. That's always going to require a great deal of depth of experience in what software and how softw…”

“I think it's a huge mistake if you drop tests in exchange for speed of development, because Very quickly when you're working the test, you find your development speed goes up. The existence of the test lets you move faster because you don't have to constantly …”

“I actually still think, understand, like, it's always double clicking on that layer that you depend on. Like maybe that to me is a matter, like it's always take that time to learn about your dependencies. Cause this way, when your dependencies change, like you…”