Conversations are becoming the source of code, with code as a downstream artifact.
Nathan Sobo argues that with the rise of AI agents, conversations now initiate the coding process, making code a product of those conversations rather than the starting point. ✦ AI generated
Nathan Sobo · Syntax · 2026-08-12 · original ↗
starts at this moment · 26:49
“So you're you're sharing like the entire agentic conversation. Like that is stored in your history of of Delta?”
now conversations are becoming sort of the source of our code. Like we were thinking we'd write all the code and have conversations in it. Now conversations are the beginning and code comes out of that. It's a downstream artifact.
verbatim transcript · starts at 26:49
26:49and really accelerate acceleratingly like since last fall, at least for people that write Rust because before then agents couldn't really write Rust is that now conversations are becoming sort of the source of our code. Like we were thinking we'd write all the code and have conversations in it. Now conversations are the beginning and code comes out of that. It's a downstream artifact. >> Yeah. So you're you're sharing like the
27:13entire agentic conversation. Like that is stored in your history of of Delta? >> Yeah, we have a delta level so every single token that flows in, every prompt >> Yeah. >> everything that happens is sort of captured continuously as it's flowing in. And what it enables is you can start this conversation attach uh clones of your repository to the conversation share a link with a a member of your team or you know, if
27:47you set up a GitHub app or whatever we eventually evolve into um you can sort of broadcast it to your team. Hey, I have this thread that I started with an agent. And anybody else can pop into that thread with you. And they'll have the same work trees cloned down to their disk and we do a conflict-free sync of every single edit. So you can have a copy of the exact work
28:13like it's in Git like a work tree is your own personal thing. >> Yeah. >> want to collaborate you got to commit and push. DeltaBB backing this whole thing means like every participant in that conversation with the agent or multiple agents cuz you can switch between them has a a clone of the code that they can touch and manipulate and it will all be synced across all the machines in in
28:38real time. >> Oh man, that's cool. So it's >> It rips. It it rips and and uh some of the things that you might not know from this is that like every single line of code you can determine like which agent wrote that code specifically like >> Which model? It is like a model blame. It's really what it is. >> Opus 5. >> And you can annotate responses.
29:03It's really really sick. >> The people listening right now are probably trying to place where this will live in their thing. Like like this is like does this replace GitHub? Does this replace cloud code or open code or like is this the this is the chat app but also the like the history? >> We don't we're not aiming necessarily I mean long term I would love to replace
- ·Conversations are becoming the source of code
- ·Previously code came first, then conversations
- ·Now conversations begin the process
- ·Code is a downstream artifact of those conversations
- ·Previously: write code, then have conversations.
- ·Now: conversations are the beginning.
- ·Code comes out of the conversation.
- ·AI agents drive this shift.