Building the next generation of AI developer tools

AI has already changed software development. Tools like GitHub Copilot have become ubiquitous part of the workflow of millions of developers. Like other well-known editor features, AI-in-editor increases productivity, reduces required context switching, and lets developers stay in the flow while focusing on important parts of their job.

However, this was just a first step - with the rapid developments of large language models (LLMs), which have become more powerful and knowledgeable with every release and have excellent reasoning capabilities, we can do more. Nowadays, we see AI agents such as Claude Code able to solve complex, repository-wide tasks or even generate whole applications.

In the talk, I will discuss how AI developer tools has changed over the years, describe emerging usage patterns of AI agents and how they change whole software development process, and peek into the future of developer tools. All that while trying to answer the most important question - how to design applications using AI with humans in mind.