Birgitta B
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Wild to me that a CEO sets goals about outcomes that have nothing to do with the business (are customers more satisfied? Is the product more reliable? Etc.)
Setting the goal of what % of code should be AI-generated is as useful as setting the goal of how many lines of code devs should write per day
Setting the goal of what % of code should be AI-generated is as useful as setting the goal of how many lines of code devs should write per day
September 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Wild to me that a CEO sets goals about outcomes that have nothing to do with the business (are customers more satisfied? Is the product more reliable? Etc.)
Setting the goal of what % of code should be AI-generated is as useful as setting the goal of how many lines of code devs should write per day
Setting the goal of what % of code should be AI-generated is as useful as setting the goal of how many lines of code devs should write per day
Reposted by Birgitta B
I blurghed some thoughts blog.thepete.net/blog/2025/06...
Starting to realize what makes me nervous about Devin et al. It becomes a new incantation of the perennial problem of letting a stakeholder get work done by shoulder-tapping their favorite young engineer
Starting to realize what makes me nervous about Devin et al. It becomes a new incantation of the perennial problem of letting a stakeholder get work done by shoulder-tapping their favorite young engineer
Your CEO Should Not Be Slacking Your Coding Agent
Autonomous coding agents may seem magical, but they generate drag on your team. Allowing stakeholders to directly ask an AI to do work leads to the same old disruptions as directly requesting work fro...
blog.thepete.net
June 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I blurghed some thoughts blog.thepete.net/blog/2025/06...
Starting to realize what makes me nervous about Devin et al. It becomes a new incantation of the perennial problem of letting a stakeholder get work done by shoulder-tapping their favorite young engineer
Starting to realize what makes me nervous about Devin et al. It becomes a new incantation of the perennial problem of letting a stakeholder get work done by shoulder-tapping their favorite young engineer
And I just thought about agents causing that, now @thepete.net is bringing up the possibility of non-coding managers doing it too, with AI‘s help…
June 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
And I just thought about agents causing that, now @thepete.net is bringing up the possibility of non-coding managers doing it too, with AI‘s help…
Cursor's "Composer" does it, Codeium released a new editor called "Windsurf", and GitHub Copilot's new "Copilot Edit" feature makes this capability available to many of our clients at Thoughtworks, where Copilot currently remains the most widely adopted tool.
November 19, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Cursor's "Composer" does it, Codeium released a new editor called "Windsurf", and GitHub Copilot's new "Copilot Edit" feature makes this capability available to many of our clients at Thoughtworks, where Copilot currently remains the most widely adopted tool.
Multi-file editing capabilities have been available in open-source tools like Cline and Aider for some time, but in just the past few weeks some of the major commercial coding assistance products have released that capability.
November 19, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Multi-file editing capabilities have been available in open-source tools like Cline and Aider for some time, but in just the past few weeks some of the major commercial coding assistance products have released that capability.