Leading in the era of AI code intelligence (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

This week Adam is joined by Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph for a “2 years later” catch up from his last appearance on Founders Talk. This conversation is a real glimpse into what it takes to be CEO of Sourcegraph in an era when code intelligence is shifting more and more into the AI realm, how they’ve been driving towards this for years, the subtle human leveling up we’re all experiencing, the direction of Sourcegraph as a result — and Quinn also shares his order of operations when it comes to understanding the daily state of their growth.

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Featuring:

• Quinn Slack – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Sourcegraph.com
• Cody from Sourcegraph

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: CrabNebula Cloud (00:01:22)

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3. Start the show! (00:04:15)

4. It's been two years (00:04:53)

5. Being CEO (00:06:02)

6. Why are less people using code AI? (00:11:50)

7. Subtle human leveling up (00:14:47)

8. Latency between the prompt/response (00:20:07)

9. Sponsor: Tailscale (00:22:44)

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10. Is AI stealing the joy work? (00:25:37)

11. What's changed with Sourcegraph? (00:29:12)

12. Selling Sourcegraph then vs now (00:33:19)

13. Sponsor: imgproxy (00:48:59)

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14. Let's talk winning (00:52:27)

15. Vertical up the customer base? (00:59:42)

16. How are you winning the customer? (01:05:08)

17. Two co-founders great at comms (01:07:29)

18. What's next for Cody? (01:12:52)

19. Very different conversation (01:14:59)

20. Outro and shout outs (01:15:16)