Interview: Sourcegraph Founder/CEO Slack Quinn
summary
Engineers who master AI coding assistants and code search tools like Sourcegraph see their market value jump, doing engineers become quasi-PMs/EMs work without an intermediary manager and capturing more product impact. The argument says AI drives a code explosion — vastly more generated code — which increases maintenance liability unless teams adopt automated discovery, provenance, and testing pipelines. Recommendation: pair large-model copilots with searchable code graphs and CI that surfaces ownership and regressions early so the extra code doesn’t become unmaintainable.
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