What Derek Briggs thinks about code generation

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Designer and developer. Principal designer at Shopify; before that head of design at Hypermode (with Kevin Van Gundy, acquired) and, in 2024, Director of Design at Clerk.

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1. 3 Nov 2026

   Our readingA codebase is the most important context an AI agent has, and letting many different models add to it without consistent patterns leads to trouble.

   Their wordsBecause I am a big believer that, like, the most important piece of context that you have is your codebase. And if you just let it continue to evolve itself and sling things in there from various different models doing various different things, I think that you're going to get into a world of hurt eventually.

   ↗Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopifyyoutube.com 10th of 13 in this recording