Beyond the hype

What the data says about AI in software engineering

Matthew Blode · Linktree

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Beyond the hype: what the data says about AI in software engineering

AI made software cheap to make. It didn't change who has to decide what good is. Notes from shipping agent-written code to production at Linktree.

  1. 1Beyond the hype: what the data says about AI in software engineering
  2. 2I wrote this talk with AI
  3. 3I should have known better
  4. 4100 PRs by 7pm
  5. 5Nobody has the whole system in their head
  6. 6You didn't buy speed. You bought inventory
  7. 7What our data said
  8. 8Your dashboard is an eval too
  9. 9Twenty characters
  10. 10Delete first
  11. 11Think hard once
  12. 12Every detail matters
  13. 13Every harness I kept, I kept for its brakes
  14. 14On Monday
  15. 15At some point you need to think