code-review

Slide: +741% lines of code written, +30% software shipped

The Death of the Code Review: What the Data Actually Says (Laurie Voss)

Developers who switched on autonomous coding agents wrote 741% more code and shipped 30% more software. Laurie Voss (npm co-founder, now head of developer relations at Arize AI) opens with that pair of numbers from a study of more than 100,000 GitHub developers, and spends the next 24 minutes on one question: if review is the bottleneck, what are teams actually doing about it? The talk is a literature review delivered at speed....

Ron Minsky opening his talk on building reliable software in the age of agents

Now More Than Ever: Building Reliable Software in the Age of Agents

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. Ron Minsky opens his talk with a self-deprecating framing: he’s the guy who’s spent a career advocating for rigorous engineering — strong types, OCaml, careful testing, taking code review seriously — and now, in the era of coding agents, he’s back to tell you that all that stuff is now more important, not less....