Another AI oriented podcast that’s becoming a go to for me is Bg2 Pod featuring Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley. These quotes from Episode 11 from Brad Gerstner teeing up the implications of agentic engineers followed by Bill Gurley revisiting the same advice he gave 20 years ago tied to “we evolve with our tools” and recommending engineers “run right at it” are most definitely worth a listen…

The segment can be found at the 44 minute mark but here’s the exchange.

Brad Gerstner:

“Co-pilot is building effectively autocomplete allowing engineers to become more productive and you know Cognition is building engineers. I asked Scott, I said ‘how many employees do you have because I think he has tens of thousands of Enterprise customers already and he said ‘18.’ I said ‘How do you do all this work with only 18 people and he said “We have 100 Devins, we have 100 agentic engineers that are helping us write code.’"

"That’s a theme I’ve heard from Glean, I’ve heard it from Distill, I’ve heard from Cognition this idea that we’re going to have a workforce of people in the not so distant future that are going to be able to take these multi-step functions and go build me a website, right? No longer just complete a line of code but complete an entire task you know…"

Bill Gurley:

“I’ll just say one thing real quick. I gave a speech 20 years or so ago about how we evolve with our tools. Yeah, you know you wouldn’t try and run a high production farm without a tractor, you wouldn’t do it with a plow and oxen."

"That just has always been true in our society and so if you are a programmer who is worried about this, the best thing you can do is run at it. Go hang out, yes, play with Cognition. Get into GitHub Co-Pilot and learn. You know Satya Nadella said that the ordering of the workflow of writing code is changing as a result of this."

"You won’t know that unless you’re in it.”

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Run at it. You’ve got this. 🏆 🏆 🏆

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