“I've seen people who have started. I have seen no one who has finished.”
Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · October 2026
Asked whether any large companies have moved to AI-driven software factories. Jacob says the industry is still in the phase of discovering which techniques work.
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…everybody gets to be more creative. And so people tend to love it actually when they get to the other side, even though in the middle, they're like, ooh, I don't know how I feel about it. Cause, you know, because I really loved being a programmer the way I was a programmer two years ago, you know?
Have you seen any large companies that have like at least started to take this on or switch toe?
I've seen people who have started. I have seen no one who has finished. Okay. And that's, you know, and I think that's true even amongst my peers. You know, like there was an era, it's slowing down now, but I would say six months ago, I was averaging three calls a week from friends who, you know, my company was failing at that moment six or eight months ago. So I was in the, I was in the position of having to wrestle with this, but not having customers or, you know…
Yeah. And I, and I, I, I, I feel like you have such a good like your thumb on this type of stuff because I'm, I'm just, I keep thinking about big companies like LinkedIn. And once they get this, something like this in place, what do they do with? I just looked it up. They have 10,500 engineers. And…
I don't, I don't know. Nobody knows. And here's my guess: my belief is that the answer is yes, they can. What we don't know is what that is yet. Because what happens when you get this increase? Like what happens when a system changes that dramatically, when that order of magnitude jump occurs?…
Yeah.
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