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Damien Tanner

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791 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

I was like, make an integration test suite for this and feed the WAV files like you're having a conversation and check the transcripts you get back.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And it did a great job.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And then it was actually able to fully simulate those conversations and do all the tests.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And then that, I mean, we've got these practices like TDD, which are going to hold value, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

It was so valuable for the model, for the agent to be running the tests, fixing the tests, running the tests, fixing your tests.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And that feels a bit like magic when you get that working.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

You need to be able to code codex from your tablet.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

I think the hardest thing is our own mindset, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

I just found this with coding agents.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

You start off putting in things where you kind of have an idea, you know what to expect out of it.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And then you start just putting in stuff that just seems a bit ridiculous and ambitious.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And oftentimes it fails, but more and more it's working.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

that's a very magical feeling and it's a very revealing kind of experience.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And so I think we can all be more ambitious now.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

I think we all, and especially as engineers, we know how the whole thing works, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

There is a lot of power.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

Everyone's being given with vibe coding, being able to vibe code.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

There are a lot of security issues.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

I think they'll be solved over time.