Ben Cohen

They were getting value out of it.

And then he starts looking around the office and he sees non-technical people on the sales team.

using cloud code to analyze their calls and summarize meetings.

And he thinks, oh, this is actually interesting.

People who are not just pure coders are using this to their advantage too.

I think that timing is really important.

It comes out right before everyone goes home for the holidays and is off.

And I think that like part of the momentum and how this thing spread so quickly in Silicon Valley is that people who work inside these companies were just at home and it was the holidays and they were screwing around on their computers like they always do.

And suddenly they had time and inclination to play and experiment with Cloud Code.

I think a whole lot of them were like completely blown away by what they found.

And I think my reaction was like, oh my God, not only are we doing this, I can't believe it did this already.

I mean, this was like two minutes after we were talking about this.

And then eventually we brought in some actual humans who know how to write code at the Wall Street Journal to... To fix our code.

Yeah.

Here's our colleague Ben again.

This is also like a really instructive example.

Like code might get you 90% of the way there, but for that 10%, humans are not just valuable, but kind of essential, right?

Like this whole thing doesn't happen without that last 10%.

A year ago, 10% of his code was coming from cloud code.

Six months ago, 50% of his code was coming from cloud code.