<p>In this episode, Dave interviews Mitchell Johnson, chief product development officer at Sonatype, about the notion of a Hippocratic Oath for developers, where you do no harm to the codebase, and how AI is impacting that.</p><p>They discuss:</p><ul><li>The responsibility a developer has to keeping their codebase healthy whenever they add a new feature</li><li>How being able to output code faster with AI makes it harder to have visibility into how changes impact downstream systems</li><li>How AI assisted coding may actually slow things down</li></ul>

<description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Dave interviews Mitchell Johnson, chief product development officer at Sonatype, about the notion of a Hippocratic Oath for developers, where you do no harm to the codebase, and how AI is impacting that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They discuss:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The responsibility a developer has to keeping their codebase healthy whenever they add a new feature&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How being able to output code faster with AI makes it harder to have visibility into how changes impact downstream systems&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How AI assisted coding may actually slow things down&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>

In this episode, Dave interviews Mitchell Johnson, chief product development officer at Sonatype, about the notion of a Hippocratic Oath for developers, where you do no harm to the codebase, and how AI is impacting that. They discuss: The responsibility a developer has to keeping their codebase healthy whenever they add a new featureHow being able to output code faster with AI makes it harder to have visibility into how changes impact downstream systemsHow AI assisted coding may actually slow...

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334: A developer's Hippocratic Oath in the age of AI (with Sonatype's Mitchell Johnson)

334: A developer's Hippocratic Oath in the age of AI (with Sonatype's Mitchell Johnson)

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