Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of “industrializing software development” using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they’re really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases.

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Featuring:

• Beyang Liu – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Sourcegraph.com
• Cody

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פרקים

1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Retool (00:01:26)

https://retool.com/changelog

3. Start the show! (00:04:31)

4. What does it mean to "industrialize" software development? (00:10:30)

5. How did you know AI was coming? (00:15:58)

6. AI Agents are here (00:19:45)

7. Day in the life of an Engineer who uses Sourcegraph (00:23:48)

8. Agent Code Review (00:34:02)

9. Sponsor: Augment Code (00:37:27)

https://www.augmentcode.com

10. Inner Loop vs Outer Loop (00:40:36)

11. We have limited will power (00:44:10)

12. Converting dumb Cron jobs to smart AI Agents (00:53:35)

13. Innovating in trusted and controled loops (01:01:03)

14. Sourcegraph for Enterprise and Government (01:02:59)

15. Challenges building for self-hosted and cloud (01:04:47)

16. VS Code is most popular for Cody (01:06:28)

17. Just buy Zed? (01:07:25)

18. Sponsor: Temporal (01:15:11)

https://temporal.io

19. The state of Frontier AI models (01:17:33)

20. How Sourcegraph interfaces with the various models (01:21:16)

21. "We partner very closely" with the Frontier AI model developers (01:23:46)

22. Speculating on what's to come (DM Beyang for access) (01:27:49)

23. How popular is Cody? (01:32:14)

24. It's all about the inner/outer loop (01:35:32)

25. Achieving industrial economies of scale (01:38:16)

26. Read The Mythical Man-Month (01:39:17)

27. Closing thoughts and stuff (01:39:57)

28. ++ Teaser (01:43:18)