The Rise of Agentic Systems and AI-Driven Development | Jeff Haynie, Ep 27

“We're going to shift from human directed AI assisted to AI driven human assisted. That's going to kind of flip-flop. Not for every application, not for every developer, but in general. And that's not low code. That's different. There's still going to be a lot of code. AI generated code with human review, human in the loop.”

“The cardinality of agents is way larger than apps or APIs or websites, frankly. There's going to be way more agents than there are apps. Maybe half a million apps have been built on the app store and there's going to be that many agents probably in the next 12 months.”

“Today's modern data center was built for humans. We have visualization dashboards so we can visualize logs and Prometheus metrics. Those are built for humans. AI doesn't need any of that and agentic systems need different things. It doesn't need pretty charts and graphs. It could just use the underlying low-level data.”

“The Bay Area is a really special place because it's got a confluence of capital and really smart innovators. But the other two pieces that a lot of other cities don't have is a support staff of people that come and work at these companies—they're not the founders, but they're the first 100, 200, 300 employees—and service providers. There's a special lexicon, a special language, a special way and process that these companies get built.”

On Appcelerator's acquisition timing

“We probably should have sold a couple of times before, honestly. The outcome was okay. People made money, but we could have probably had a better outcome if we'd have sold maybe a year before. You don't know. You never know. Life's hard to look back in reverse.”