specs-to-code movement
“I tried this. I really tried it. And it sucks. It doesn't work. Because you need to keep a handle on the code. You need to understand what's in it. You need to shape it, because the code is your battleground.”
AI alignment via grilling session
“I needed to reach a shared understanding. I didn't need an asset. I didn't need a plan. I needed to be on the same wavelength as the AI, as my agent.”
context compacting vs clearing
“devs love compacting for some reason, but I hate it. I much prefer my AI to behave like the guy from Memento, because this state is always the same, always the same every time you do it. You clear and you go back to the beginning. And so if you're able to do that and you're able to optimize for that, then you're in a great spot.”
push vs pull coding standards in agents
“In the reviewer, I would push the coding standards. In the implementer, I would allow it to pull. And I'm actually using Sonnet for implementation and Opus for reviewing, because I consider reviewing sort of — I need the smarts then.”
code review burden with AI agents
“I don't honestly know what the answer to this yet. I think we just need to be ready to be doing more code review. Essentially, which is not fun. That's not a fun thing to say. That's not like — I don't know. I don't feel good saying that, but I do think it's probably the way things are going.”
improve codebase architecture skill
“If you take one thing away from today, just try running this skill on your repo and see what happens.”
automating the full development pipeline
“If you try to, like, automate the sort of creation of the idea, automate the QA, automate the research, automate the prototype, you end up with apps that I feel just lack taste. And we are not producing slop here.”