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Thuan Pham

What Thuan Pham thinks about coding agents

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Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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  1. Our readingDirecting a swarm of coding agents is a different, multi-threaded way of thinking that costs more cognitive load, and the engineers who make the switch have doubled their output.

    Their wordsit required a different way of thinking and the cognitive load might be a little higher but the output is dramatic and we have seen our best engineer double their output.

    ↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 18th of 24 in this recording

  3. Our readingAI has already made sweeping mechanical changes cheap; the unsolved problem is getting the same productivity when adding features to an old, entangled codebase.

    Their wordswe're trying to crack the next frontier which is how we get that level of productivity increase and output building new features on top of a code base that are older,

    ↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 19th of 24 in this recording

  5. Our readingAI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge.

    curiosity

    Their wordswe see the difference between the great engineer and an an average engineer is still two 3x in terms of their capability. They're more inquisitive. they're at the bleeding edge more, they're more innovative,

    ↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 20th of 24 in this recording