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Chip Huyen

What Chip Huyen thinks about coding agents

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Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering.

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  1. Our readingProblems follow a long tail: AI will keep getting better at the common ones, and the edge cases will never go away.

    Their wordsSo, I think of them as the top of the long long tail long tail problem. Like, something very common issues that a lot of people experience. AI will get really good at it. And over time AI will cover more more edge cases, but the edge cases will never go away.

    ↗Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there's nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 5th of 14 in this recording

  3. Our readingLine-by-line code review has become an outdated ritual: senior engineers should be giving feedback on how their team instructs AI, not on the code AI wrote.

    Their wordsSo, I think that the whole workflow of like reviewing code is very outdated. Like, I don't think the I think that the senior member, instead of like giving feedback on the code, they should be giving feedback on like how you give instruction to AI to produce better.

    ↗Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there's nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 10th of 14 in this recording