AI coding tools

5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 20, 2025 by Derrick Reimer · across every show →

Everything said about AI coding tools, oldest first

May 20, 2025 positive
Insight
Reimer: AI coding tools are most effective at writing test code
“Yeah, I would say it's, I've still found this to be true even in my few months of using it aggressively now that it is best at writing test code, and test code is just like, it's usually kind of an afterthought when you're trying to move quickly, you know, esp…”
Derrick Reimer May 20, 2025 ▶ 10:37 Episode 775 | A.I. Coding Tools, User Experience, Racking Your Ow...
May 20, 2025 negative
Opinion
Reimer: AI-generated codebases are not yet maintainable long-term by non-engineers
“I am skeptical about the maintainability of some of these code bases that were generated from scratch fully by AI. I haven't found the code that it generates to be good enough for, I'm trying to imagine someone who doesn't know code at all using this to try to…”
Derrick Reimer May 20, 2025 ▶ 8:03 Episode 775 | A.I. Coding Tools, User Experience, Racking Your Ow...
Aug 19, 2025 negative
Insight
Reimer: AI coding tools fail as codebases outgrow LLM context windows
“Most of these tools today that help you build, like, a V-one of a product are kind of effective because they're able to hold most of the product in the context window of the LLM... But as soon as your code base gets Sufficiently large, where it doesn't all fit…”
Derrick Reimer Aug 19, 2025 ▶ 7:17 Episode 788 | Do I Need a Co-founder? And More Listener Questions...
Jan 27, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
Cohen: Studies show AI does not make software engineers 10x more productive
“Like in coding, it's not, right? Like all the studies in, in real engineering departments is not that AI makes them 10 times better. The only people who claim that are the people selling AI products, the users of it. You know, there might be individuals claimi…”
Jason Cohen Jan 27, 2026 ▶ 47:26 Episode 817 | Bootstrapping in the Age of AI with Jason Cohen
May 26, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2031
Ries: Vibe coding will inevitably cause a massive mission-critical disaster
“It's only a matter of time before someone vibe codes their way into a massive mission critical disaster. When they deploy code they think they understand, but they don't.”
Eric Ries May 26, 2026 ▶ 17:29 Episode 834 | Eric Ries Revisits The Lean Startup and Discusses H...
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