Steve Yegi is the founder and CEO of Century.io, a developer first APM tool to use. He talks about his early days as an entrepreneur working for Jeff Bezos at Amazon in the 90s. Steve says he learned that dev tools needed better languages and frameworks. The most important thing you can learn from your career so far has been learning how not to upset people by being too conservative or innovative.
This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab. Ok, it’s storytime!
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