From Facebook's First Hires to VCs: Surviving the End of Human Coding

For 20 years, Keith Adams and Aditya Agarwal built the foundations of Web 2.0 at companies like Facebook, Slack, and Dropbox. Now, as venture capitalists, they are navigating a wild new reality: the machines can code better than they can.

In the second episode of After Coding, Keith sits down with Aditya (his first boss at Facebook, now a partner at South Park Commons) to unpack the genuine grief of seeing AI master the craft they built their identities on and the exhilarating burst of building that followed. They discuss the awkward dilemma of raising 10-year VC funds during a technological tsunami, why nobody actually knows what a great software company looks like anymore, and why human typos carry a premium in a world of infinite AI generation.

After Coding is a new podcast from Pebblebed hosted by Keith Adams, exploring how we think, talk, and build in a world where the machines write the software.

What is After Coding - A podcast by Pebblebed?

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For the last 80 years, the motive force of the computer revolution has been coding: the creation of software in formal languages by technical professionals exerting their intellect and their fingers. Sometime in 2025, this changed. To the extent coding remains a human activity, it is now education, craft, or leisure. The economically consequential coding is done by LLMs.

Keith Adams spent most of his waking hours coding, at VMware, Facebook, and Slack. You have run his code, probably today. He is also one of the generations of engineers whose work trained the clankers we now hand the keyboard to.

On After Coding, Keith sits down with the people who still think hardest about software to ask what the discipline becomes once the typing is no longer the point.