developer

also referred to as: developers

10 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2016 by Dan Scholnick · across every show →

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Jan 25, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Scholnick: Tech organization influence has shifted from IT groups to developers
“The power in, and the influence in technology organizations is, has moved, shifted dramatically away from the classic IT group to the developer.”
Dan Scholnick Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 15:28 Investing in Data and A.I. // Dan Scholnick, Trinity Ventures (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Jan 25, 2016 positive
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Scholnick: Data scientists dislike enterprise sales pitches as much as developers
“But I think you can build a similar business to The type of, to the direct to developer tool businesses. There's no reason why not. I don't think that data scientists enjoy being sold to any more than developers do.”
Dan Scholnick Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 20:34 Investing in Data and A.I. // Dan Scholnick, Trinity Ventures (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 30, 2016
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Weiss: Developer hype for bots stems from app store distribution frustration
“I think a lot of the excitement about, ah, bots in general, not just on Slack, on Messenger, on all these other services, is developers are really fed up with trying to actually get adoption and distribution for the service that they're building.”
Noah Weiss Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 19:03 Big Data at Slack // Noah Weiss, Slack (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Nov 13, 2019
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Volpi: Enterprise software is sold by developers, not executive slideware
“Whereas software was once sold through slideware to executives, software is now sold by developers who self-discover and evangelize that software.”
Mike Volpi Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 5:29 Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 2, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Mann: GitHub Copilot saves developers about 40 percent time on new code
“They've done some studies, and it's, they, studies suggest that it saves about 40% for new code for developers to write new code.”
Gideon Mann Feb 2, 2023 ▶ 12:55 A Conversation on The State of AI | Melanie Kambadur, Meta & Gideon Mann, Bloomberg
Jun 28, 2023
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Embedding search and analytics enable developers to improve model reliability
“By looking at embeddings doing embedding search, doing analytics over embedding space you could give developers you know, at the minimum of a divining rod, if not a compass, to be able to improve their models and get to the level of reliability they want to ha…”
Jeff Huber Jun 28, 2023 ▶ 1:47 Why Vector Databases Are Exploding: Chroma Co-Founder Jeff Huber on Building AI-Native Infra
Oct 25, 2023 neutral
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Mathew Lodge: Developers dislike unit tests because incentives favor feature delivery
“Fundamentally they're not paid to write tests. They're paid to deliver the functionality, the new things in the application that fixes the application, the updates and tests are just there to, as part of the process to help them.”
Mathew Lodge Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 16:49 Diffblue’s AI Testing Paradigm Shift — CEO Mathew Lodge Explains How Code Writes Itself
Dec 20, 2023
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Developers abandon tools quickly when products with superior AI emerge
“They're the first people to leave you if something else is more capable.”
Eiso Kant Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 13:03 The Race to Build the Ultimate AI Programmer | Poolside CTO Eiso Kant
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Dohmke: Most developers have adopted AI tools, unlike other knowledge workers
“Most developers have adopted some form of AI tooling into the workflow already, while other knowledge workers, other white collar workers are still early in that adoption journey.”
Thomas Dohmke Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 34:35 GitHub CEO: The AI Coding Gold Rush, Vibe Coding & Cursor
May 14, 2026 negative
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Burazin: Individual developers will not pay for single-developer tools
“The code anywhere product had no enterprise use case value. It was all single developer value and single developers do not want to pay for these things.”
Ivan Borzin May 14, 2026 ▶ 25:43 The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
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