Walden Yan
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387 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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I know you forgot one of them and actually it's a slightly different color, one spline.
I'm like, okay, this is too much to work with.
Let's actually try to do code review at the same time and make sure that we're on top of our stuff.
We're actually cleaning it off a bit and making sure it's done in a scalable way.
Do you think that statement will be true on...
Well, I guess generally on the topic of where humans can be useful, I found that some of these really deep info problems, sometimes just having a human that just has really deep expertise can make a big difference.
I've actually seen this come into play when actually building agents.
So we've had a few friends now try building their own coding agents.
And I think one same problem that I recurrently heard a lot of them run into was this problem of like, oh, like,
you know, grep is really slow on our agents machines.
And so a lot of them, I assume because they're using AI and like they themselves don't have like super deep infra background knowledge, say, okay, we're going to go build our own custom grep index.
It's going to be really fast and use that as a way around this problem.
When we ran into this problem,
about like, you know, maybe like a year and a half ago when we were in the early days of building Devon.
We obviously didn't have AI that we just asked, so like, you could just lock up a new grep index.
What do you mean you hand-coded Devon?
What?
Yeah, it's like, can you believe we hand-wrote this code?
And we had our infra people who are really...
amazing.
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