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From AI Agents for Performance: Ship Faster, Pay Less — Rajat Shah, Netflix · ≈0:51
Argues that code volume scaling 10x with coding agents drags infra cost up with it, because the agent invents patterns from other codebases rather than following yours.
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- Argues that code volume scaling 10x with coding agents drags infra cost up with it, because the agent invents patterns from other codebases rather than following yours.
Clip transcript
scale and uh what does it cost to actually do it right? The problem is arising arising from the fact is that you are authoring code now at a 10x faster speed. The uh coding agents are getting better and better uh at uh solving problems. And um as more and more uh engineers uh adopt it, it it gets very easy to produce code in your system. And this is slight exaggeration, but the compute cost also uh is increasing at a similar pace uh because uh it doesn't always uh write the fastest code. Uh so, this is where the problem arises because of that new wide coding era. Uh the AI agent ships code. Uh it is pretty much tuned to ship code fast. Um and of course, you could say that uh as the uh the coding agents are evolving, newer models are coming into play. Uh they get better and better at uh simply writing performant code. But, that's not always true. Your um agent doesn't know specific details about your platforms and your frameworks uh and your internal code base patterns. So, it it tends to just produce code based on what it might have already seen other code bases using or inventing new patterns in your code bases that you did not anticipate an engineer to use as a pattern to use your framework.
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