code generation
Machines emitting code and files, and whether the volume they produce is a cost somebody eventually pays.
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Andrej Karpathy quoted
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla
Their wordsas intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before.
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsAI doesn’t change it just easier to hack stuff together. That is not engineering tho ofc you don’t always need engineering
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Cory Doctorow quoted
Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist
Their wordsSlop's not merely annoying or time-wasting: it's a betrayal of the love and care that goes into writing and maintaining code for others.
↗Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Tomasz Tunguz quoted
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures
Their wordsSoftware engineering have evolved to systems architecture. That was always the destination. This is the new software engineering : designing the systems that let AI write code correctly at scale.
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Peter Steinberger quoted
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade
Our readingModern AI models tend to write tests for every tiny change, even when those tests aren't useful.
Their wordsModern models just love writing tests for every tiny change, even if they aren't useful.
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsAccept code on merit and ensure that a person takes accountability for it. Doesn’t matter if it was typed, chiseled, generated, or bit-flipped via magnetized needle on a chip. If it’s good, it’s good. If it’s slop, it’s slop.
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
Their wordsin the future, humans won’t find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won’t be in PRs and it won’t be by looking through every line of the code.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 1st of 15 in this piece
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
Our readingMore software is likely to be produced next year than in all of the history of computing.
Their wordsIt's likely that more software will be produced next year than in all of the history of computing.
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
Their wordsAgents are the new compilers. They compile intent into fast software.
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Daniel Lemire quoted
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing
Their wordsDifficult proofs will now be built with AI, just as most code will be written with AI.
↗The four-colour theorem was only the startlemire.me 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
Their wordsAI is still at its best when it can reuse great components than regenerating every time from first principles.
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Vicki Boykis quoted
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems
Their wordsBut in this new era, we must delete code even harder, because if we don't constantly remove complexity, we are going to drown in generated kudzu slop that overtakes codebases.
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsThat was premised on humans doing the modifications. I think it is an open question to which degree this still matters. Now, it does matter, and the reason I say that, at least for the moment, is that tokens are still scarce. At this moment in time, we are all token limited.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 16th of 41 in this recording
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Jon Seager quoted
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical
Their wordsplausible-looking output is not evidence that the translated program behaves like its source.
↗Investing in automated C to Rust translationjnsgr.uk 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Jon Seager quoted
Their wordsGenerated code should be treated as untrusted until there is evidence that it preserves the desired behaviour.
↗Investing in automated C to Rust translationjnsgr.uk 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Addy Osmani quoted
Engineering leader and author who spent 14 years at Google
Their wordsevery time that we've made it easier to create software, we've exponentially created more of it.
↗From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmaniyoutube.com 19th of 22 in this recording
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Charity Majors quoted
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb
Their wordsI mean, if you if you think about it, you could generate 10,000 variants of a function faster than you could write it once.
↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 5th of 26 in this recording
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Charity Majors quoted
Their wordsLike that just does not seem like the ideal artifact. We should be able to store them somewhere. We should be able to have architecture diagrams that we can review and discuss that generate that code to spec.
↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 6th of 26 in this recording
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Charity Majors quoted
Their wordsOkay, if I'm not going to read this code, how do I know it's going to perform within boundaries of the last code that I generated? That is conformance testing.
↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 11th of 26 in this recording
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Boris Cherny quoted
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic
Their wordsone example is the model can now rewrite essentially any code base from one language to a different language.
↗Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com 12th of 20 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsSo, this is why I'm quite skeptical about all this new AI acceleration we're having is even us, I think it's quite likely that we could use it wrong to build too much software, to get too far away from less software, learnable software. It still has to fit in the mind of a human.
↗DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Controlyoutube.com 2nd of 15 in this recording
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Dex Horthy quoted
Founder of the agent company HumanLayer
Their wordsAnd uh it's still worth it's still worth not reading the code for most of the time at the cost of every once in a while I'm going to have to spend two weeks fixing an issue by hand. And I don't believe that anymore because I think the amount of code we're able to write now is actually like 10xed or 100xed and I think the problem's just getting worse.
↗Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.com 12th of 26 in this recording
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Fabien Sanglard quoted
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code…
Their wordsWriting every line by hand is no longer the norm. Those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they won't be able to produce as much
↗Don't you mean extinct?fabiensanglard.net 1st of 3 in this piece
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Kent Beck quoted
Creator of extreme programming and test-driven development
Their wordswe're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating trust and that sense of trust comes from me struggling to understand some domain concept I get it. I represent it in the code. I have I write tests that demonstrate that I really did understand it. And now I trust my program.
↗How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industryyoutube.com 2nd of 28 in this recording
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NeetCode quoted
Naveed Singh, the software engineer behind NeetCode
Their wordsYeah, so I would say over the last 6 months actually we've been cranking a lot of features out a lot of code out. Most of it has been written by AI at this point. And before that really wasn't the case. I was actually a really big AI hater for a long time
↗Tech interviews with NeetCodeyoutube.com 13th of 21 in this recording
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NeetCode quoted
Their wordsBut in terms of like features, like a website like you can just throw features in there nowadays that nobody really cares about and you can you can do it so quickly. Like a new feature every single day, but do people actually care about that? Is that making it better? It could be making things worse.
↗Tech interviews with NeetCodeyoutube.com 14th of 21 in this recording
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Elio Struyf quoted
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker
Their wordsAI removes that slowness, which means it also removes the filter.
↗Is AI taking the joy out of coding, or am I giving it away?eliostruyf.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Stephen Wolfram quoted
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research
Their wordsYes, it's not perfectly reliable, and typically requires quite sophisticated wrangling to keep it on track.
↗Launching Version 15 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Built-in (Useful) AI & Lots of New Core Functionalitywritings.stephenwolfram.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Brett Williams quoted
Founder of Designjoy, the one-person subscription design studio
Their wordsit's like the last 20% of building an app with AI is like 80% of your time.
↗Brett Williams - How a Visual Designer Became a Builderyoutube.com 2nd of 16 in this recording
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Brett Williams quoted
Their wordsI feel like it's much easier to copy a tool one-for-one than like start with a blank slate, you know, from scratch and then like have to think through all these edge cases
↗Brett Williams - How a Visual Designer Became a Builderyoutube.com 5th of 16 in this recording