What Elizabeth Stone thinks about coding agents

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Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.

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19 Jul 2026

Our readingThe code today’s models and agents write is very hard to follow: you get better performance without knowing why, and no way to fix it when it breaks.

Their wordsSo looking at some of the code that some of these models or agents are writing they're very hard to follow. It's like I know I'm getting better performance from this but I have no idea why and if this thing breaks I'm going to have no idea how to fix it.

↗Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com 17th of 20 in this recording