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What Tony Fadell thinks about coding agents

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Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Tony Fadell has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingAgent-written code that runs and passes its tests is not enough: security, maintainability and being able to roll it back still need humans in the loop.

    Their wordsyou can have an agent make code for you and it could work and it could test, but is it secure? Is it maintainable? If there's something going wrong, can you roll things back and understand what's going on?

    ↗Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)youtube.com 12th of 23 in this recording

  3. Our readingAI coding works when a person owns the architecture and scopes the agent to small pieces of it, and fails when the whole thing is handed over.

    Their wordsWhat's proven is if you properly architect it and have co- cloud code go into certain sub segments or have cloud help you build the architecture, you modify, refine it, lock it in and say just work on these few things

    ↗Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)youtube.com 13th of 23 in this recording