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Likes AI copilots.

19 Dec 2024 Lenny's Podcast How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)

“" And, either delete the code, because you have inspiration and write it yourself, or just take the suggestion and move it forward. But, I love today's world of AI copilots, because you never have to code loan on your own right?”

— Farhan Thawar

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Farhan Thawar
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19 Dec 2024
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Lenny's Podcast

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…I can't help but ask AI, how does that impact this way of working? So, AI is super interesting. What's happening right now with an AI copilot like GitHub Copilot is it is your pair programmer. So, you now can feel like you're pairing actually without another human. You can pair with the AI. And so, what's happening too is that you're seeing people use Whisper, like they're talking to Cursor, and they're talking through Whisper to say, "Okay, let's build a new React component that does this." And they're talking and then it's building. "Oh no, that's not what I meant. I meant doing this." So you can actually not even have to type, just using voice, go back and forth with your pair programmer. I would say, that's amazing. I would still contend take that experience and add two humans together. So you've got an AI copilot and humans, because what's happening is generating code. And the two humans can look and say, "Oh, I know what it's trying to do. " And, either delete the code, because you have inspiration and write it yourself, or just take the suggestion and move it forward. But, I love today's world of AI copilots, because you never have to code loan on your own right? You never have to code alone. You can try a different language now, because the API and the syntax is much easier to pull forward. And so, all of those things are a win for engineering and a win for everybody who wants to build any software. That makes a lot of sense. Basically, everyone's going to be a pair programmer-…

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