Tech Today with Eric Tarczynski The Rise of the AI Coding Agent with Quinn Slack
Jun 6, 2025
Quinn Slack, co-founder and CEO of Sourcegraph, discusses the transformative power of AI coding agents reshaping software development. He explains how Sourcegraph's tools, Cody and AMP, focus on model-product fit instead of traditional feature lists. The conversation highlights the importance of customer trust for innovation and the strategic significance of transparency in a rapidly evolving industry. Slack also touches on recent funding developments, including Anysphere's impressive raise, and the competitive landscape surrounding AI advancements in defense.
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AI Coding Agents Transform Developers
- AI coding agents are becoming the central focus of the modern engineering stack.
- They build on large language models and dramatically improve software development workflows.
Focus on Model-Product Fit
- The key to success is aligning product design with new model capabilities, not just proprietary data.
- Making agents work well with customer codebases is more important than owning unique training data.
AI Agent as Developer's Core
- The AI coding agent is the AI version of a software developer and becomes central in tooling.
- Developer tools and languages will shift to serve AI coding agents as they write most code.