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It observes the relevant monitoring graphs, but can also build its own dashboard to monitor important signals. More of our code changes are going to production with this kind of agent monitoring.", "speaker": "Venkat Venkataramani", "role": "VP of Engineering, Applied Infra", "organization": "OpenAI", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "Inside OpenAI's agentic software factory", "type": "press", "date": "2026-09-15", "publisher": "The Pragmatic Engineer", "locator": "2. Death of the IDE & pull requests", "url": "https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/openai-software-factory" }, "grade": "C", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "bugs-and-incidents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/openai-building-agent-handholds-change-all-way-2026" }, { "id": "shopify-you-just-tell-ai-go-nuts-makes-2026", "text": "You just tell the AI to go nuts. 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You just say, “Yep, that’s good.” You don’t really read it, and now it has to be reviewed by your colleagues.", "speaker": "Tobi Lütke", "role": "Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer", "organization": "Shopify", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "The Knowledge Project (podcast by Shane Parrish of Farnam Street, independent), transcript on fs.blog", "type": "interview", "date": "2026-09-10", "publisher": "The Knowledge Project (podcast by Shane Parrish of Farnam Street, independent), transcript on fs.blog", "url": "https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/tobi-lutke-3/" }, "grade": "C", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/shopify-you-just-tell-ai-go-nuts-makes-2026" }, { "id": "stripe-about-30-prs-week-came-minions-2026", "text": "about 30% of our PRs in that week came from Minions", "speaker": "Will Gaybrick", "role": "President, Technology and Business (also styled President of Product and Business)", "organization": "Stripe", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George (podcast episode: \"Stripe’s AI Strategy: Build More, Not Less\")", "type": "interview", "date": "2026-08-17", "publisher": "The a16z Show (podcast and YouTube channel of Andreessen Horowitz, an investor in Stripe)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5iICDVn5gc" }, "grade": "C", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "agent-pr-share", "value": 0.3, "unit": "share", "period": "one week ('that week', said 2026-08-17)", "definition": "share of Stripe's pull requests in that week that came from Minions", "level": "human-approves" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/stripe-about-30-prs-week-came-minions-2026" }, { "id": "stripe-last-week-i-think-7-000-prs-2026", "text": "last week, I think 7,000 PRs came from minions", "speaker": "Will Gaybrick", "role": "President, Technology and Business (also styled President of Product and Business)", "organization": "Stripe", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George (podcast episode: \"Stripe’s AI Strategy: Build More, Not Less\")", "type": "interview", "date": "2026-08-17", "publisher": "The a16z Show (podcast and YouTube channel of Andreessen Horowitz, an investor in Stripe)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5iICDVn5gc" }, "grade": "C", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "agent-prs", "value": 7000, "unit": "count", "period": "one week ('last week' as said on 2026-08-17)", "definition": "pull requests that came from Minions, Stripe's one-shot coding agents, in one week", "level": "human-approves" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/stripe-last-week-i-think-7-000-prs-2026" }, { "id": "greptile-little-difference-revert-rate-people-versus-agents-2026", "text": "So there didn't seem to be very big difference between the rate at which pull requests were reverted from people versus agents in my study.", "speaker": "Daksh Gupta", "role": "Co-founder", "organization": "Greptile", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "AI-Generated Code Is Already Competing With Human Code", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-09-27", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "06:05", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=474j-n1Ltxc" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "code-review", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/greptile-little-difference-revert-rate-people-versus-agents-2026" }, { "id": "greptile-three-out-four-agents-fewer-p0s-than-humans-2026", "text": "So then I started tracking the counts of P0s, P1s, and P2s in all of these changes. And interestingly, once again, there was not that much of a difference. In fact, three out of the four agents that we tested performed better than humans in terms of the rate at which … were producing P0s. They were producing fewer P0s than humans were. Similarly, the case with P1s and P2s. Broadly speaking, human-generated PRs were about equal in quality to … PRs based on this data.", "speaker": "Daksh Gupta", "role": "Co-founder", "organization": "Greptile", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "AI-Generated Code Is Already Competing With Human Code", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-09-27", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "07:07", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=474j-n1Ltxc" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "code-review", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/greptile-three-out-four-agents-fewer-p0s-than-humans-2026" }, { "id": "figma-best-engineer-know-pitfalls-mental-duct-tape-slower-adapt-2026", "text": "It's actually our best engineer. … they know where all the pitfalls are. They are … together with like their mental duct tape, all the places that agents are not working well and they're preventing all the really bad stuff from coming in … slower to adapt because they see all the problem …", "speaker": "Eyal Blum", "role": "Software Engineer", "organization": "Figma", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-28", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "03:27", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bn0xro2ol8" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "adoption-and-usage", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/figma-best-engineer-know-pitfalls-mental-duct-tape-slower-adapt-2026" }, { "id": "figma-plan-week-aligned-teams-agent-overnight-six-weeks-5x-2026", "text": "I aligned with three other teams for another week on that and then I just sent it to an agent to implement overnight and it came back, this is probably from two … not one, but it's basically six weeks of coding work … only one week. So that's where I get … 5X speed up if I include the review cycle at the end…", "speaker": "Eyal Blum", "role": "Software Engineer", "organization": "Figma", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-28", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "11:20", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bn0xro2ol8" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "coding-speedup-planned-agent-work", "value": 5, "unit": "x", "period": "one example plan, as of the talk", "definition": "speed-up the speaker reports for his own planned work, six weeks of coding work done by an agent overnight against about two weeks of planning and alignment, including the review cycle, as stated", "level": "human-approves" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/figma-plan-week-aligned-teams-agent-overnight-six-weeks-5x-2026" }, { "id": "figma-week-writing-detailed-plan-agent-implements-restores-joy-2026", "text": "And so it's not uncommon to spend a week writing a very detailed plan, making all the decisions, flushing it out, iterating, sending it out to teammates to review. And then only when it's read and you've … out all the decision, … to the agent, the agent will send it back to you when it's implemented … has been really successful also in accelerating and also really restoring some of the joy into the development process.", "speaker": "Eyal Blum", "role": "Software Engineer", "organization": "Figma", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-28", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "08:07", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bn0xro2ol8" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/figma-week-writing-detailed-plan-agent-implements-restores-joy-2026" }, { "id": "boundary-dependency-graph-cli-invariants-architecture-unchanged-months-2026", "text": "This tool basically visualizes our dependency graph internally with some external dependencies as well, … But what's more interesting is we can go build CLI tools that guarantee that certain invariants can't be broken. And what this does is when Claude builds a new package or adds a dependency that's leaky, we now have CI/CD changing or a simple git commit history that tells us exactly where things break. And by this, we're actually able to make our architecture change. We haven't changed our architecture in the last three or four months.", "speaker": "Vaibhav Gupta", "role": "Co-founder and Chief Executive", "organization": "Boundary (BoundaryML)", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "Fighting Slop with Slop", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-07-31", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "4:05", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMiyLItEtLA" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "code-review", "autonomy-and-oversight", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "Gupta is describing how the team keeps the BAML code base from drifting when engineers do not review each other's code.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/boundary-dependency-graph-cli-invariants-architecture-unchanged-months-2026" }, { "id": "reddit-built-agent-clean-stale-feature-flags-scored-reviewer-2026", "text": "I got tired of watching old feature flags pile up… I built an agent for cleaning up stale feature flags. It runs in my local workflow and it doesn't merge any code. The models, the easy part. The judgment in front of it is the whole game. Every flag gets scored the way an experienced reviewer would analyze it. How many modules does it touch? Is it multi-variant? Does it share a component? Then it checks the experiment data. Is the rollout frozen? Is there a sample ratio mismatch? Is there a variant already rolled out to 100 percent?", "speaker": "Andrew Orobator", "role": "Senior Software Engineer", "organization": "Reddit", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Scale the Judgment, Not the Model", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-06-30", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "11:18", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MudaeKdBSk" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "internal-tools", "autonomy-and-oversight" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "The speaker is a Reddit Android engineer. In the talk he describes this agent as running in his local workflow and on his laptop, and says some of his other practices are from his personal side projects.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/reddit-built-agent-clean-stale-feature-flags-scored-reviewer-2026" }, { "id": "reddit-flag-agent-seven-for-seven-green-ci-1-26-per-pull-request-2026", "text": "Before I trusted this workflow, I back tested the scoring against months of clean up history. Then I ran it live. Seven for seven PRs with green CI. Now it runs daily on my laptop and hands work back for me to review. … $1.26 a pull request. A backlog of around 520 flags a year runs for under $700. If you had engineers working on this by hand, at least $26,000 that you're looking at.", "speaker": "Andrew Orobator", "role": "Senior Software Engineer", "organization": "Reddit", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Scale the Judgment, Not the Model", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-06-30", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "11:59", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MudaeKdBSk" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "ai-cost-and-spend", "measuring-impact" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "flag-cleanup-prs-green-ci", "value": 7, "unit": "count", "period": "the live run after back testing", "definition": "pull requests from the speaker's stale-feature-flag agent that passed CI, out of 7 (\"Seven for seven\")", "level": "human-approves" }, { "metric": "flag-cleanup-cost-per-pr", "value": 1.26, "unit": "USD", "period": "per pull request", "definition": "cost per pull request of the speaker's stale-feature-flag agent, as he states it", "level": "human-approves" }, { "metric": "flag-cleanup-yearly-cost", "value": 700, "unit": "USD", "period": "per year, backlog of around 520 flags", "definition": "upper bound ('under $700') the speaker gives for running his agent on about 520 flags a year", "level": "human-approves" }, { "metric": "flag-cleanup-manual-cost", "value": 26000, "unit": "USD", "period": "per year, same backlog", "definition": "the speaker's estimate ('at least $26,000') of the same work done by engineers by hand", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": "The speaker is a Reddit Android engineer. In the talk he describes this agent as running in his local workflow and on his laptop, and says some of his other practices are from his personal side projects. The $26,000 is his own estimate of manual cost, and the PR count is a small sample.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/reddit-flag-agent-seven-for-seven-green-ci-1-26-per-pull-request-2026" }, { "id": "reddit-job-changed-harness-engineers-now-system-produce-verify-code-2026", "text": "The job changed, and most of us didn't even notice, we're harness engineers now. Our work is the system that helps produce and verify the code. The constraints, the gates, the skills, the verification.", "speaker": "Andrew Orobator", "role": "Senior Software Engineer", "organization": "Reddit", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Scale the Judgment, Not the Model", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-06-30", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "02:06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MudaeKdBSk" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "autonomy-and-oversight", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "The speaker is a Reddit Android engineer speaking about engineers in general, not describing a Reddit policy.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/reddit-job-changed-harness-engineers-now-system-produce-verify-code-2026" }, { "id": "block-builderbot-orchestration-layer-coordinates-multiple-agents-2026", "text": "Builderbot is an orchestration layer that coordinates multiple AI agents across our entire codebase. It works inside Slack: anyone can tag @builderbot with a short description of what they need, and it gets to work right there in the thread, whether it’s a bug fix, a migration across services, or a new feature.", "speaker": null, "role": null, "organization": "Block", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Block rolls out BuilderBot, a new suite of AI-native tools that changes the way we ship", "type": "post", "date": "2026-06-17", "publisher": "Block (own site)", "locator": "How it works", "url": "https://block.xyz/inside/block-rolls-out-builderbot-a-new-suite-of-ai-native-tools-that-changes-the-way-we-ship" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "where-agents-run" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/block-builderbot-orchestration-layer-coordinates-multiple-agents-2026" }, { "id": "block-square-features-sellers-waiting-months-shipped-days-2026", "text": "On the Square side, we took a list of features sellers had been waiting on for months and our engineers shipped them in days. Builderbot handled the scaffolding and the repetitive work, and our engineers made the decisions that shaped the product.", "speaker": "Brad Axen", "role": "Head of AI Capabilities", "organization": "Block", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Block rolls out BuilderBot, a new suite of AI-native tools that changes the way we ship", "type": "post", "date": "2026-06-17", "publisher": "Block (own site)", "locator": "What it means for how we build", "url": "https://block.xyz/inside/block-rolls-out-builderbot-a-new-suite-of-ai-native-tools-that-changes-the-way-we-ship" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/block-square-features-sellers-waiting-months-shipped-days-2026" }, { "id": "factory-software-factory-starts-signals-outside-world-2026", "text": "The software factory starts with signals from the outside world: bug reports, internal conversations, customer feedback, business requirements. These signals get triaged and turned into planned changes. These changes are built, tested, reviewed, secured, shipped, and monitored. Monitoring that deployed software generates more signals. The entire system is a continuous feedback loop.", "speaker": null, "role": null, "organization": "Factory", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "Factory 2.0: From coding agents to software factories", "type": "post", "date": "2026-06-15", "publisher": "Factory (own site)", "url": "https://factory.ai/news/software-factory" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "ai-across-the-company" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/factory-software-factory-starts-signals-outside-world-2026" }, { "id": "cognition-devin-permanent-pm-memory-file-slack-channel-2026", "text": "So we have like some Slack channels internally, maybe a Slack channel dedicated to, a specific product like DeepWiki maybe. And you can imagine that, or you want a Devin that never stops, it’s just always awake, but it has this like memory dock that it can just maintain for itself about, okay, what are like the number one priorities of what we have to fix and prioritize? Who is responsible for some upcoming work?", "speaker": "Walden Yan", "role": "Co-founder and Chief Product Officer", "organization": "Cognition", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "The Age of Async Agents: Cognition's Walden Yan and OpenInspect's Cole Murray", "type": "podcast", "date": "2026-05-28", "publisher": "Latent Space", "locator": "00:33:01", "url": "https://latent.space/p/cognition" }, "grade": "C", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "internal-tools", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering", "product" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cognition-devin-permanent-pm-memory-file-slack-channel-2026" }, { "id": "cognition-sre-use-case-internally-think-auto-triage-2026", "text": "The SRE use case, internally we think about it as auto triage Because we just want every message that comes in, and that’s an alert, that’s a bug report, to have Devin just start triaging it before anything else. And we’ve leaned into this use case so much though that we’ve basically tried to make it so that you don’t ever have to leave Slack to interact with this.", "speaker": "Walden Yan", "role": "Co-founder and Chief Product Officer", "organization": "Cognition", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "The Age of Async Agents: Cognition's Walden Yan and OpenInspect's Cole Murray", "type": "podcast", "date": "2026-05-28", "publisher": "Latent Space", "locator": "01:03:24", "url": "https://latent.space/p/cognition" }, "grade": "C", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "bugs-and-incidents", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cognition-sre-use-case-internally-think-auto-triage-2026" }, { "id": "amazon-bedrock-30-people-18-months-six-people-76-days-2026", "text": "And sometime last year, we knew, or I say we, but the bedrock team knew that they were going to need to build a new inference data plane. But they had estimated it at 30 people over 18 months. This is a big, big service, and it was … take time to build the new one, migrate customers over, migrate models over, and they decided to take a step back. They took six people and they built it in 76 days with …", "speaker": "Clare Liguori", "role": "Senior Principal Engineer, AWS", "organization": "Amazon", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-28", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "2:35", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "estimated-team-size", "value": 30, "unit": "people", "period": "estimate made last year, as described in 2026", "definition": "people the Bedrock team estimated for a new inference data plane, over 18 months", "level": "n/a" }, { "metric": "actual-team-size", "value": 6, "unit": "people", "period": "built in 76 days", "definition": "people who built the new inference data plane in 76 days, per the speaker", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": "Liguori is describing the Bedrock team (Amazon's model hosting service) and its build of a new inference data plane.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-bedrock-30-people-18-months-six-people-76-days-2026" }, { "id": "amazon-frontier-developers-three-behaviors-hands-off-coding-2026", "text": "And I like to define what we've been calling frontier developers inside of Amazon by three behaviors that I've been seeing. One is hands off coding, frontier developers write maybe … of the code that they produce. The rest is agents. The second is that they interact with their agents infrequently. They'll aim to get their coding assistant to run for up to hours at a time without their intervention. And third is that they minimize idle time. These frontier developers tend to run multiple agents in parallel, … through a backlog of tasks.", "speaker": "Clare Liguori", "role": "Senior Principal Engineer, AWS", "organization": "Amazon", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-28", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "1:40", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "ai-written-code", "autonomy-and-oversight" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "Liguori is defining what Amazon calls frontier developers.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-frontier-developers-three-behaviors-hands-off-coding-2026" }, { "id": "amazon-prime-video-ten-day-sprint-90-weeks-down-to-24-2026", "text": "So another experiment that I want to talk about is an experimental sprint that was done in the Prime Video Organization. They took a 10-day sprint and they … experiment where they put, again, six engineers in a room and they let them go wild with Kiro. They brought down the project delivery time estimate from what was going to be 90 weeks down to 24, based on all of the progress they had made in this 10-day sprint.", "speaker": "Clare Liguori", "role": "Senior Principal Engineer, AWS", "organization": "Amazon", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-28", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "4:05", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "measuring-impact", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "delivery-estimate-before", "value": 90, "unit": "weeks", "period": "before the 10-day sprint", "definition": "project delivery time estimate before the sprint", "level": "n/a" }, { "metric": "delivery-estimate-after", "value": 24, "unit": "weeks", "period": "after the 10-day sprint", "definition": "revised project delivery time estimate, based on progress made in the sprint", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": "Liguori is describing an experimental sprint in Amazon's Prime Video organization.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-prime-video-ten-day-sprint-90-weeks-down-to-24-2026" }, { "id": "uber-one-biggest-learnings-process-like-model-2026", "text": "One of the biggest learnings in this process was like the model doesn't know that it's wrong. It always confidently says 100% sure that, yeah, this is the review for your code. Go ahead. 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And one thing we learned the hard way is that even with the decent context file, it is better than having none. 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I think Opus 4.5 maybe was the inflection point where that then generally made it so that it was very easy to see the kind of results we were seeing and expecting.", "speaker": "Rajesh Bhatia", "role": "Senior Director of Engineering, Cloudflare", "organization": "Cloudflare", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "From Assisted to Delegated: Cloudflare's AI Engineering Stack (interview, Background Agents Summit 2026)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-05-06", "publisher": "Ona (YouTube)", "locator": "7:54", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbLdrAZFQRs" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "adoption-and-usage" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "Asked which month or model made AI coding tools start to work at Cloudflare; he had said the company began piloting coding assistants in mid-2025.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cloudflare-opus-4-5-maybe-was-inflection-point-2026" }, { "id": "ramp-93-prs-now-automatically-handled-review-buddy-2026", "text": "93% of our PRs are now automatically handled by Review Buddy so that the highest quality engineers are spending time on the 7% of PRs that truly matter,", "speaker": "Geoff Charles", "role": "Chief Product Officer (CPO)", "organization": "Ramp", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-09-25", "publisher": "Lenny's Podcast (YouTube channel); Geoff Charles's talk at the Lenny and Friends Summit, recorded 2026-09-10", "locator": "09:34", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG8Mf3P9xzI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "code-review", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "function-agent-share", "value": 0.93, "unit": "share", "period": "share of PRs, as of 2026-09", "definition": "engineering: pull requests automatically handled by Review Buddy, Ramp's AI code reviewer (unit of work: PRs)", "level": "unclear" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/ramp-93-prs-now-automatically-handled-review-buddy-2026" }, { "id": "ramp-finds-right-human-reviewer-loop-2026", "text": "It finds the right human reviewer to loop in.", "speaker": "Geoff Charles", "role": "Chief Product Officer (CPO)", "organization": "Ramp", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-09-25", "publisher": "Lenny's Podcast (YouTube channel); Geoff Charles's talk at the Lenny and Friends Summit, recorded 2026-09-10", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG8Mf3P9xzI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "code-review", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/ramp-finds-right-human-reviewer-loop-2026" }, { "id": "spotify-total-merged-changes-more-than-doubled-year-2026", "text": "Total merged changes more than doubled year over year in August, from roughly 8,100 to 17,000.", "speaker": null, "role": null, "organization": "Spotify", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "AI Changed How Spotify Builds. What We Learned (and Fixed) About Quality at Higher Velocity", "type": "post", "date": "2026-09-16", "publisher": "Spotify engineering blog", "url": "https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/ai-changed-how-spotify-builds-what-we-learned-and-fixed-about-quality-at-higher-velocity" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "prs-merged", "value": 17000, "unit": "count", "period": "August 2026", "definition": "total merged changes (PRs) in the month", "level": "n/a" }, { "metric": "prs-merged", "value": 8100, "unit": "count", "period": "August 2025", "definition": "total merged changes (PRs) in the month", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/spotify-total-merged-changes-more-than-doubled-year-2026" }, { "id": "linear-number-issues-pull-request-attached-someone-engineering-2026", "text": "the number of issues with a pull request attached by someone in an engineering, product, or design function has grown sevenfold", "speaker": null, "role": null, "organization": "Linear", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Linear (own site)", "type": "post", "date": "2026-08-26", "publisher": "Linear (own site)", "url": "https://linear.app/now/sharing-growth-with-the-people-building-linear" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "measuring-impact", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "company-wide" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "output-change", "value": 7, "unit": "ratio", "period": "since the start of 2026", "definition": "issues with a pull request attached, across customer workspaces", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/linear-number-issues-pull-request-attached-someone-engineering-2026" }, { "id": "monzo-alert-investigation-automatic-investigations-paging-alerts-production-2026", "text": "Alert investigation: automatic investigations of paging alerts in production", "speaker": null, "role": null, "organization": "Monzo", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Building Agent Chip: Monzo's in-house agentic tool", "type": "post", "date": "2026-08-13", "publisher": "Monzo blog", "url": "https://monzo.com/blog/building-agent-chip" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "bugs-and-incidents", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/monzo-alert-investigation-automatic-investigations-paging-alerts-production-2026" }, { "id": "xebia-planning-agent-runs-your-most-powerful-2026", "text": "The planning agent is responsible for the actual thinking, so it should run on your most powerful model. I initially used Fable for this purpose when it was available, as it excels in UI/UX design. When Fable was no longer accessible, I switched to Opus. Since the planner writes the specifications, the implementation can be handled by a more cost-effective and faster model like Sonnet.", "speaker": "Noah Blauensteiner", "role": "Author, Xebia articles", "organization": "Xebia", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "Shining Some Light in Dark Agentic Software Factories", "type": "post", "date": "2026-08-12", "publisher": "Xebia articles", "locator": "What is an Agentic Software Factory?", "url": "https://xebia.com/articles/shining-some-light-in-dark-agentic-software-factories/" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "ai-cost-and-spend" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/xebia-planning-agent-runs-your-most-powerful-2026" }, { "id": "tessl-building-tooling-for-agent-reignited-developers-2026", "text": "What I've seen is that when we started introducing … and loops and eventually more autonomous work within the whole organization, a new technical path opened. All of a sudden, we were helping the agent with tooling, building tooling for the agent and that kind of reignited some of the developers … kind of felt that it wasn't for them. Not all of a sudden, they were like, yes, we can do this, we have that knowledge, we're like somehow helping this even with a kind of programmatic way.", "speaker": "Patrick Debois", "role": "Product DevRel Lead", "organization": "Tessl", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "Coding Agents Don't Scale Themselves. Neither Do Your Teams. The Rise of Agent Enablement", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-07-02", "publisher": "AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 (YouTube)", "locator": "03:53", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJtYuqwm7E" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "training-and-skills", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering", "people" ], "figures": [], "context": "Debois, who says earlier in the talk that his observations include Tessl, is describing developers' reaction to prompting and spec-writing and then to building harnesses; the speaker does not say which team 'we' is.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/tessl-building-tooling-for-agent-reignited-developers-2026" }, { "id": "tessl-retros-agent-hit-problem-fix-system-2026", "text": "What I started seeing in some of the more advanced kind of teams is that … rituals of, Hey, we're doing a planning and we're doing a retro in a team that they weren't about like, Hey, we had issues with the code, but we're seeing we had issues with the system. So on the retro part is like, Hey, the agent went over and over hit this problem. Can we fix the system? That's something you'll learn in the retro.", "speaker": "Patrick Debois", "role": "Product DevRel Lead", "organization": "Tessl", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "Coding Agents Don't Scale Themselves. Neither Do Your Teams. The Rise of Agent Enablement", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-07-02", "publisher": "AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 (YouTube)", "locator": "07:07", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJtYuqwm7E" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "Debois describes what he has seen in advanced teams adopting coding agents; he does not name the teams.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/tessl-retros-agent-hit-problem-fix-system-2026" }, { "id": "airbnb-like-50-users-i-dont-want-scare-2026", "text": "We have like 50 users and I don't want to scare people, but the PR throughput for these folks is like 3X higher again.", "speaker": "Christopher Sanson", "role": "Product Lead, AI Developer Experience", "organization": "Airbnb", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement 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Durable session, woken by an external system, often no human in the loop.", "speaker": "Burke Libbey", "role": "Principal Engineer", "organization": "Shopify", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Under the River", "type": "post", "date": "2026-05-28", "publisher": "Shopify engineering blog", "url": "https://shopify.engineering/under-the-river" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "code-review", "coding-agents", "autonomy-and-oversight" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/shopify-mode-automation-pr-review-durable-session-woken-2026" }, { "id": "shopify-recent-30-day-period-59-918-river-2026", "text": "In a recent 30 day period: 59,918 River sessions happened in 5,170 Slack channels, touching the work of 7,000+ people inside the company", "speaker": "Burke Libbey", "role": "Principal Engineer", "organization": "Shopify", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Under the River", "type": "post", "date": "2026-05-28", "publisher": "Shopify engineering blog", "url": "https://shopify.engineering/under-the-river" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/shopify-recent-30-day-period-59-918-river-2026" }, { "id": "zendesk-pull-requests-arrive-faster-than-human-driven-2026", "text": "Pull requests arrive faster than human-driven review can stay meaningful.", "speaker": "Bence A. 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