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David Crawshaw

What David Crawshaw thinks about AI agents

@david-crawshaw · 19 positions · On ppll ↗

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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4 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Crawshaw has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingA person directing an AI agent rather than writing code themselves has no incentive to actually read the resulting code or engage seriously with reviewer feedback.

    Their wordsThere is no incentive for the human driving the agent to actually read the code or spend time thinking about what the reviewer says.

    ↗The agent principal-agent problemcrawshaw.io 2nd of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingMaking the person who directs an AI agent also own the deployment removes the principal-agent misalignment that agent-driven code review creates.

    AI alignment

    Their wordsthere is no principal-agent problem, because the human driving the machine takes on the responsibility for its actions by owning the deployment.

    ↗The agent principal-agent problemcrawshaw.io 3rd of 3 in this piece

  4. 2 weeks earlier

  5. Our readingMaking code easier to write will lead to much more software being created overall.

    Their wordsAgents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.

    ↗I am building a cloudcrawshaw.io 3rd of 3 in this piece

  6. 2 months earlier

  7. Our readingMost current software and ways of solving problems are structured the wrong way for the agent era.

    Their wordsMost software is the wrong shape now. Most of the ways we try to solve problems are the wrong shape.

    ↗Eight more months of agentscrawshaw.io 2nd of 3 in this piece