Thomas Dohmke

You will be, you know, either too

far away and then you will have to work with the agent and understand you know how do I get it now to the point and I think what will be crucial here is that developers will want to just take the code on your local machine on their local machine and modify it because there's always going to be a moment where you're like this is three lines of code I know exactly what I'm doing instead of me trying to figure out how to tell the agent

to change those three lines of code, I just change it myself.

So we will switch between the natural language layer and the coding layer all the time.

No, I would actually follow your logic, but even layer it a little bit.

You know, you mentioned a number of these agents.

And so let's say, you know, you and I want to build a web page where we sell shoes, right?

You can just go to any of these agents and have it build the web page for you.

And it can even deploy it.

And you never have to look at the code of that web page, right?

Because it used to be called low code or no code.

And a lot of these very simple things you can build without ever looking at the code.

Now our shoe empire grows and now we have a full e-commerce store and we need a backend and a warehouse.

Now what started simple no longer scales.

And all of a sudden, you know, a million buyers come and the webpage is down on Black Friday.

How do you figure out...

to make that actually work.

Now you need to go into what is actually the part of engineering, which is not building this quick web page, hacking it together is what we used to call it, but figuring out how do I make the scale, how do I have the capacity on Black Friday, but don't waste a lot of money because servers cost money and that ruins the margin of our business when there is no demand.

And so we have to build, you know, an abstraction layer in between, for example, for all the shoe pages to have the same design system, design components.

And so when we decide, okay, you know, we're five years into our business and our brand color is no longer purple, but pink, you know, that we can just change all the design at once instead of having the agent go to every single page and modify that again, right?