AI coding tools

4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2025 by Brendan Humphreys · across every show →

Everything said about AI coding tools, oldest first

Jun 20, 2025 negative
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AI coding tools pose serious quality risks when used by junior engineers
“There's a challenge for our industry in that we do see kind of slightly bipolar results for these tools in the hands of a senior engineer who can tell good code from bad code. They're very, very powerful, but for graduate engineers, for junior engineers, ah, t…”
Brendan Humphreys Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 34:57 Inside a $3B ARR Rocketship — Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys on Deploying AI at Scale
Aug 7, 2025
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Cherny: Learning to code today is actually harder than in the past
“I think for people that are learning coding today, it's actually harder than it was when I was learning coding, because not only do you have to know coding, because you still have to understand the languages. You still have to understand the frameworks. You st…”
Boris Cherny Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 57:44 Anthropic's Surprise Hit: How Claude Code Became an AI Coding Powerhouse
Nov 26, 2025 positive
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Kaiser: AI coding tools recently became how many programmers work
“But I think it's the recent few months when the transition happened from, you know, people using it sometimes, but rarely, to now basically this being how a lot of people work in coding.”
Łukasz Kaiser Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 7:42 What’s Next for AI? OpenAI’s Łukasz Kaiser (Transformer Co-Author)
May 28, 2026
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Levie: Knowledge work AI is harder than coding AI due to fragmented context
“The code base has so much of the context in coding. Whereas in the rest of knowledge work, the context lives across like 20 different things. Some digital and some very not digital, you know, kind of mediums.”
Aaron Levie May 28, 2026 ▶ 25:40 State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
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