Doug Soo
Fallthrough
Close Encounters of the Human Kind
- Published
- October 10, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 7m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 21, 2026
Discusses ai.
Summary
How should we spend our time now that writing code is cheap? In this episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Doug Soo, a staff engineer working on the storage systems at Honeycomb. They discuss his blog post Spend More Time Talking to Humans, how AI is changing software development, and how that affects the way we communicate.The trio go from hedging the cla…
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Show notes
How should we spend our time now that writing code is cheap? In this episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Doug Soo, a staff engineer working on the storage systems at Honeycomb. They discuss his blog post Spend More Time Talking to Humans, how AI is changing software development, and how that affects the way we communicate.The trio go from hedging the claim that we trust the output of compilers so we should trust the output of agents, how correcting LLMs can lead to exhaustion with little benefi
Themes
- ai