The Changelog   /     Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interview)

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Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Bryant go deep on the idea of "industrializing software development" using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they're really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases.

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1:44:49
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2025-03-12 22:00
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https://changelog.com/podcast/632
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Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Bryant go deep on the idea of “industrializing software development” using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they’re really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases.

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Deeplinks to Chapters

0 This week on The Changelog
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1185 AI Agents are here
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1428 Day in the life of an Engineer who uses Sourcegraph
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2042 Agent Code Review
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2247 Sponsor: Augment Code
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2436 Inner Loop vs Outer Loop
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2650 We have limited will power
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271 Start the show!
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3215 Converting dumb Cron jobs to smart AI Agents
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3663 Innovating in trusted and controled loops
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3779 Sourcegraph for Enterprise and Government
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3887 Challenges building for self-hosted and cloud
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3988 VS Code is most popular for Cody
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4045 Just buy Zed?
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4511 Sponsor: Temporal
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4653 The state of Frontier AI models
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4876 How Sourcegraph interfaces with the various models
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5026 "We partner very closely" with the Frontier AI model developers
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5269 Speculating on what's to come (DM Beyang for access)
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5534 How popular is Cody?
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5732 It's all about the inner/outer loop
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5896 Achieving industrial economies of scale
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5957 Read The Mythical Man-Month
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5997 Closing thoughts and stuff
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6198 ++ Teaser
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630 What does it mean to "industrialize" software development?
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86 Sponsor: Retool
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958 How did you know AI was coming?
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