Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents
Devs are generating twice as much code (or more) than just 6 months ago, which is a problem for quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix is available for these, but who’s acting rationally?
Scheduling update: this week, there will be a podcast episode on Wednesday and no The Pulse on Thursday.
I’m in Budapest, Hungary, this week, for Craft Conference, where I’ll be giving a keynote presentation alongside other speakers, including software engineering legend Kent Beck, who’s been on the podcast, Hillel Wayne, a formal methods expert and the author of ‘Logic for Programmers’, and Titus Winters, lead author of Software Engineering at Google.
The title of my keynote is “Slow down to speed up”, and I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot recently. Here are some things I’ve been seeing that I feel are relevant…