Wondering why your maker-turned-manager suddenly seems distracted in meetings? Maybe they’re addicted to coding agents! In this episode of Lightcone, Calvin French-Owen — a co-founder of Segment and former engineer on OpenAI’s Codex team — joins us to talk about why coding agents suddenly feel so powerful, the differences between Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, and what the future of work will look like. 0:00 Intro 1:15 Garry can’t stop using Claude Code! 4:00 Contrast with IDE’s, context-splitting 6:23 Distribution models, top down vs bottom up 9:11 Licensing and optimization 12:28 Tips on becoming a top 1% user of coding…
Thursday, February 12
