Brendan Humphreys
9 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2025 by Brendan Humphreys · across every show →
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Jun 20, 2025 positive
Dedicated AI engineers will eventually become obsolete like database administrators
“We think that, you know, once upon a time in software teams, you'd have a DBA on the team, but now a DBA is not really a skill anymore because everyone, that the abstractions above databases are such that you don't really need that deep skill unless you're dea…”
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Jun 20, 2025
Canva will raise its hiring bar for junior developers due to AI
“So I think at Canva we'll be focusing on probably just more careful onboarding, more careful peer review of grads. We will be more picky. We will be looking for the grads who bring deep first principles thinking strong, really strong CS fundamentals, but also …”
Jun 20, 2025
Jun 20, 2025 positive
Steel-manning arguments resolves technical differences and builds trust in engineering teams
“Educate people about techniques like steel manning, ah, that is listening to someone else's argument that may be different to yours, ah, and then being able to restate it in its, in the strongest possible terms with genuine intent. You know, one of two things …”
Jun 20, 2025 positive
Jun 20, 2025
AI development requires shifting from deterministic tests to probabilistic evaluations
“I think a lot of software engineers are trained, particularly the more senior engineers are trained in, ah, wanting to write a whole set of unit tests based on a deterministic system. But when you've got a non-deterministic system, you have to kind of move you…”
Jul 3, 2025 neutral
Canva engineer submitted a 50,000-line AI pull request
“We had Brendan Humphreys, CTO of Canva, who was talking about that exactly, which is, okay, this is great that you can create code, but, like, we had one guy who submitted a PR that was 50,000 lines and they have a peer review culture, and Yeah. They basically…”