AI Coding meets Code Health 🪄 — with Stuart Caborn

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Today's guest is Stuart Caborn, Distinguished Engineer at Loveholidays, an online travel agency with millions of customers worldwide.

Stuart's team is doing AI coding for real:

• Each engineer deploys to production more than 80 times a month

• Over 60% of production code is written by AI

• All while maintaining an elite change failure rate under 1%, and perfect code health.

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🥇 Interview Summary

If you are a 🔒 paid subscriber 🔒 you will find my own summary of the interview below.

It’s the 5-minute takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. ✈️ The complexity of online travel

2. 🏥 Code health before AI

3. 🤖 Becoming an AI-first engineering team

4. 🛡️ Guardrails, reviews, and trusting the machine

5. 🔄 How AI is changing the development process

⠀Let’s dive in 👇

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