Time: 1:45 PM
Speaker Bio: Director of Product at Google Labs. Previously VP of Product at Vercel, Senior Director at GitHub. Deep DevEx expertise.
Speaker Profile: Full Speaker Profile
Company: Google Labs AIDA (AI Developer Assistants) team. Building Jules (autonomous coding agent) and Stitch.
Focus: Moving beyond chat-based interaction. The vision is for agents to be proactive, ambient, integrated tools rather than reactive chat interfaces.
Slides
Slide: 13-15
Key Point: This appears to be a gratitude wall or community board where conference attendees shared what they’re grateful for, creating a moment of human connection and reflection during the technical conference.
Literal Content:
- Dark green/gray chalkboard-style background
- Handwritten text in various locations answering “What are you grateful for?”
- Responses include:
- “I recovered from cancer”
- “My family”
- “Life, Health, Peace”
- “friendship”
- “nature”
- “opportunity”
- “My Daughter”
- “CAFFEINE, DUH!”
- “Jesus” (circled with heart)
- “my first NYC marathon with my family”
- “TRAVEL”
- “¡VIVA ESPAÑA!”
- “God’s Grace n’ Mercy!”
- “Days in NYC w/ my love life”
- Various doodles and small illustrations
Slide: 13-58
Key Point: Demo of an AI coding assistant that can automatically identify and execute development tasks from a backlog, showing features like finding bugs, writing code, and documentation, with the ability to track and execute multiple refactoring and implementation tasks.
Literal Content:
- Left side: Large text “DEMO” on dark background
- Right side: Purple gradient interface showing:
- Repository: “robattract-ai/aeth-python” (main branch)
- “Start” button with play icon
- Three action options: “Find and fix a bug”, “Write code”, “Document my code”
- Section: “Recommended for robattract-ai/aeth-python”
- List of tasks with play buttons and status indicators:
- Remove LRO Polling Workaround in Express Mode
- Remove Streamlit Timeout Workaround (with checkmark)
- Implement Flash Reason in Claude Integration
- Refactor Tool Appending Logic
- Refactor Unitary to Streaming Content Translation
- Add Support for Service Account Credential Exchange
- Refactor Tool Declaration Merging
- Implement Cancellation Logic for A2A Agent Executor
- Implement Server-Side Filtering for Memory Search
Notes
- Needed to remind the husband to do the dishes — Jules is about the mental load
- That’s where we are with async agents today
- We are serial processors not multiple ones
- “Humans are unitaskers”
- Trust
- Know when to step in
- To know what’s missing
- Most tools are fundamentally reactive
- “Imagine when compute isn’t a limiting agent at all”
- 4 things
- Observation
- Timely action
- Personalization
- Learn how you work, what you tend to ignore
- Seamless integrations
- Proactive system like Nest learning, like a good collaborator
- Jules is focused on the code awareness now, but moving to system awareness
- Memory — how to write its own memory
- Demo gods didn’t work
- Tasks
- Suggested tasks
- Recommended tags
- It comes up with the prompts!
- Gives context of the code and also rationale on what to do
- A giant case study
- Where do they get these doom style graphics
- Built a 6 foot animatronic head that sits in the window
- For Halloween
- Pee-wee Big Adventure
- Built the firmware and stepper motors to control the sensors with Jules
- Prompt -> ten minutes -> repeat — a tedious process
- Wanted to focus on the creative parts
- The patterns of how we use an IDE right now might not exist at all next year
- “Don’t be afraid to question the new ways of building software”