AI Coding Agents Are Breaking Big Codebases — Dan Adler, Sourcegraph

תקציר מקורי באנגליתClaude Code can make the change. But what if you have 90,000 repositories to make it in? Dan Adler, CEO of Sourcegraph, makes the case for the people who own the huge, decades-old codebases that run banks, cars and airlines. Coding agents are producing a tidal wave of code, and those codebases are starting to decay through duplicated code, drifting standards, brittle dependencies and new vulnerabilities. Agents understand code by searching, but you can't grep what you can't see. Dan argues that large-scale code visibility is infrastructure, and introduces Sourcegraph's Agentic Batch Changes for making changes across thousands of repos from a single prompt. In this talk: • Why most software engineers work in large, long-lived codebases • How AI-generated code accelerates codebase decay • Wh