The Effects of AI Coding Agents on Developer Infrastructure
Like everyone in the tech industry, I’ve been trying different Generative AI tools for coding in the last few months, from Cursor to Warp and more. We have seen a lot of discussions about the security, performance, and correctness of AI-generated code. Ultimately, the consensus around these problems is that as models improve in quality, their correctness will too, but for the time being, humans are still responsible for checking all the generated code before putting it up for review in a pull request and deploying it.
As someone who has been working primarily on improving developer productivity for the last couple of years, I spend most of my time trying to reduce build times, speed up CI builds, and make builds more deterministic and efficient for engineers. For this reason, a particular area I’m interested in is how AI coding agents and tools affect developer infrastructure.
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