AI coding tools

“And the places where it gets stuck today is currently something that where you can use being very good at understanding and getting unstuck, but in the future, it won't be so important. This is just going to not get stuck.”

“We're okay with people using the tools because I think one of the worst things is like, if someone comes here and doesn't like using these tools, like we believe they're massive productivity improvements.”

“I think this is a really interesting piece that you've just hit on, and I expect to see a lot more startups that take advantage of that insight.”

“If you think about coding as a overall category, like you know, back in the day with GitHub, everyone, they started with a seed based model, right? They've now moved to like the hybrid based pricing model with cursors and everyone else, but the natural move wo…”

“In the zero to one case, it's extraordinary. In the one to a hundred case with a established code base, productivity gains are, I'd say, modest to moderate, depending on your code base. Not exceptional yet but they're improving all the time.”

“So I'm not sure you use a lot of effort coding, but like or something I've noticed and also seen from my friends, it's like, it is pretty good when you have very clear, well defined tasks, maybe write documentations, fix the specific features, or like build an…”

“If you're building a totally new green fields code base, or you're building an app for a new platform, then we we're seeing those pretty aggressive gains, but in, you know, very complex code bases that already exist, those gains are not quite there yet.”

“These tools are very obedient and very agreeable. They're gonna lie to you. They're gonna tell you that they fixed the problem, even though they didn't. They're just gonna try to make you feel happy and say, yes, I found what the problem is and I fixed it.”

“Like no matter how your ego is big guys that you're watching this, it's your fault. Trust me. You had a bad prompt. You premised your request In the wrong way.”

“I don't think we're kind of at the point where you can be totally hands off, especially when there's a lot of people, you know, like running the program. You have to make sure that it's correct. You have to make sure it's safe and so on.”

“What we saw for coding was a very simple pattern, which was there was an early adopter crowd. The early adopter crowd would use these coding tools and really push them to the limits. And they would mostly push them to the limits on individual projects. They wo…”