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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 ↗

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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.

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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

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gives exampleA version control system that tracks every change connected to the conversation that shaped it enables continuous, real-time collaboration with agents and teammates.Nathan Sobo · Syntaxexplains mechanismThe real shared language of a software project isn't English or Python — it's the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does.Armin Ronacher · Simon Willison's Webloggives exampleAI agents are used extensively in the development workflow, especially for code review and debugging, but with human engagement to ensure quality.Nathan Sobo · SyntaxsupportsThe real shared language of a software project isn't English or Python — it's the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does.Armin Ronacher · Simon Willison's WeblogextendsA version control system that tracks every change connected to the conversation that shaped it enables continuous, real-time collaboration with agents and teammates.Nathan Sobo · SyntaxsupportsCode review is overrated and is among the least valuable things humans contribute to software engineering.Charity Majors · The Pragmatic Engineerprovides contextA version control system that tracks every change connected to the conversation that shaped it enables continuous, real-time collaboration with agents and teammates.Nathan Sobo · SyntaxextendsThe ultimate user interface is language, and as natural language becomes more accessible, it will replace many gestural user interfaces.Nathan Sobo · Syntaxprovides contextThe ultimate user interface is language, and as natural language becomes more accessible, it will replace many gestural user interfaces.Nathan Sobo · Syntax