The AI emperor has no DAUs why most devs still don't use code AI: Quinn Slack

Despite the big potential productivity increases proven from several years in the market, the embarrassing truth is that most developers in the world never or rarely use AI while coding. With hundreds of billions of dollars in upstream AI investments betting on insatiable inference demand, this is a big risk-but also a big opportunity that's not yet priced in, if you believe adoption will accelerate. Quinn Slack, the CEO/cofounder of Sourcegraph, presents this problem and shares solutions for other AI application builders and foundation model companies from lessons learned at Sourcegraph building Cody, the AI coding assistant that is #2 in revenue.
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About Quinn
I work at Sourcegraph as CEO. I love programming and want to make it so everyone can code. I studied computer science at Stanford. I’m on the boards of Sourcegraph and Hack Club. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[@dak2009]

Using an AI is like running a continuous code review with junior developers who never seem to learn from the experience.

[@jeffsteyn7174]

I haven't coded for the last 6 months. Ai writes everything.

[@Evangelion13595]

Are tech bro puffy best wearing freaks grown in a lab?

[@francisco444]

Bro I gotta get one

[@brucem8448]

Devs work 2 hours a week. Inefficiencies keep jobs.