How are devs at AI startups and in Big Tech using AI tools, and what do they think of them? A broad overview of the state of play in tooling, with Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and others
Richard Hamming's Book - The Art of Science and Engineering - is a great study for how doing one part of the system better (coding, but now with AI) could produce more solutions on the surface and more problems in the system. If more code is being output, other tools (ex. reviews) have to keep up with the inevitable issues that show up with stronger output from one part of the system.
The real question is does the overall system improve with these tools by a high amount or is it marginal?
A nice overview, Gergely. What about Salesforce? Their CEO states that their engineering team is already utilizing AI at a rate of 30-50%, which is significantly better than Microsoft Copilot. This may be investigated.
Did you come across conflicting opinions from seasoned software engineers when writing this article?
For instance, this piece by Glyph [1] to which Armin Ronacher responded to in his blog [2].
[1] https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
[2] https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/10/genai-criticism/
Richard Hamming's Book - The Art of Science and Engineering - is a great study for how doing one part of the system better (coding, but now with AI) could produce more solutions on the surface and more problems in the system. If more code is being output, other tools (ex. reviews) have to keep up with the inevitable issues that show up with stronger output from one part of the system.
The real question is does the overall system improve with these tools by a high amount or is it marginal?
Have some of you guys experimented with Junie from Jetbrains?
https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/
A nice overview, Gergely. What about Salesforce? Their CEO states that their engineering team is already utilizing AI at a rate of 30-50%, which is significantly better than Microsoft Copilot. This may be investigated.
Always interesting to see how others in the industry are finding the process, thanks!
A couple of small typos I noticed:
- Marin Fowler: -> Martin Fowler:
- For seasons software engineers -> For seasoned software engineers
Thanks for the feedback! All fixed - they slipped through two rounds of editing :-/
Your link to Warp also has a typo - the link has it "Warpi"