Why Vibe Coding Enhances Productivity - And Why Naga Santosh Wrote A Whole Book About It.

It's not like AI will completely replace your job, but a person who leverages AI definitely can replace you. AI also doing lot of hallucination. So the test cases, it was generating all crappy code. So you have to go and iterate multiple times. So I recently wrote an article also on Business Insider which talks about like how using AI as a Microsoft manager, how I can save like 60 to 70% of my time doing some repetitive task. A Go developer, right, but you have Python developer in your team. So earlier we used to hire people again who are experts in Go programming. But with AI tools now you can still use your Python guy to write code and then convert that code into Go using AI lead by example and lead with numbers like when you show the actual data. Hey, this is what I've used this agent for and this is how it really improved my, you know, productivity.

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2025 was AI agent. 2026 is wipe coding coding without coding or without so much coding? The details I won't tell you because I'm not that good at this. And I have someone for you who can go for you into the details of wipe coding. And it's Naga Centos Ready Vukudi. He wrote three books by now on wipe coding and can explain you the details of what is so special about wipe coding and how it can help you and your firm to be better at it or use it better for your business. Yeah. Welcome to another episode of the Beginner's Guide to AI. It's Ditma from Argo Berlin at the Microphone. And one thing before we give the microphone to Sunny is there's another podcast I want to recommend you. My own one, my Second one, it's AI for the 99%. It's about how to use AI as a small firm, mom, pop store, freelancer, whatever. Just search for AI for the 99% and listen to the episodes and also go to Beginnersguide nl get my newsletter to never miss an episode. But before I talk too much here, let's just give the microphone to Sunny.

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So Sunny, I can talk a lot about you, but the best is you tell us something about you. But first of all, welcome to the podcast.

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Yeah, thanks for having me, Ditmar. So yeah, happy to be part of this show. So I'm Nagar Santosh Reddy, people call me Sunny. I work as a principal software engineering manager at Microsoft for the past 15 years. I have total experience of 18 so I worked in India and China and then I moved to US back in 2017. So currently I lead a team in Azure SQL deployment infrastructure space where you using my tools and infrastructure we Deploy to like 300 million databases. All the cool features that people use on Azure Cloud. So yeah, that's what I do. And yeah, happy to be part of this show.

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And what did get you into AI? Why AI?

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Yeah, it's a long story. Like back in December 2022, that's when the ChatGPT it was becoming, you know, more popular and people started using it. Right. So I was also playing with it and you know, creating some small POCs. But the real kick in started in 2023. That's when all the companies they are developing different tools and different best practices on how to use AI. So Microsoft came up with GitHub Copilot. So that really caught my attention. So earlier I was just using it within my PoCs or experimental projects but now since 2024 I started using it in my production as well. So I recently wrote an article also on Business Insider which talks about like how using AI as a Microsoft manager, how I can save like 60 to 70% of my time doing some repetitive task. So where I can utilize that time for something else like brainstorming on architecture designing and the coding part it can, I can just deliver it to coding agent to help out with all the repetitive tasks. So that's how my journey started with AI.

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Wow. Let's jump right into this because this is a really great topic because you say, I mean one position would be okay. If he does just work 30% of the time, let's pay him 30% of the money. Or if you have a whole team, fire 70% of the team. But in this article you said actually that is not the case. You work more effective or efficient or one of those but definitely better.

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Yeah, that's true. So if you remember there is this paradox called Jeevan's Paradox where this was named after a scientist back in 1875 ish where he discussed about the coal consumption so people thought that there will be, if the efficiency goes up, there will be a down in the consumption. But that is not true. The same with white coding and AI tools. Also, it's not that, okay, AI coding is helping you with doing your tasks really fast. But that doesn't mean that, okay, now you can fire 50% or 60% of the people. So the kind of work is shifting, like the nature of the work is shifting. But I'm guessing like all the service also reported there will be more than 70% of more new engineers needed in AI space. And that's what the opportunities lies with AI and wipe code.

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But what definitely changes is how you have to work. I heard some people say work gets harder mentally. So.

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Yeah, I mean, so initially, if you remember in 2023 and 2022 there is this prompt engineering. So that was really, really like, you know, taking more in the, in the trends. Everybody started using and leveraging the prompt engineering. But it's not about like, you know, how you basically ask questions to AI. It's, it's after effects. Like once you generate the AI code, how you can basically test it. Like you, you cannot directly dump the AI generated code directly into your production. Right. So you have to take care of your security vulnerabilities, making sure that whatever AI generated is, you know, right. It suits your to your needs and requirements. So I would give a, you know, real example which happened like I think early last year where Relet CEO Amjad, he came on X and he apologized because there was this person, I don't remember his name, but he mentioned that using ReKit for wipe coding his production code, where Relet went ahead and deleted his production database. So even though he gave a clear prompt not to do that, but still Relet went ahead and it deleted it. So that's when CEO came out and he apologized and he said, we'll go back and we'll do the postmortem. So that's what the AI tool usage is basically. It will give you all the output that you need, but it is your responsibility to test it thoroughly, make sure that it is what you need as per your project requirements, and then only use it in production. So without that, I won't like, you know, I won't tell any developer to directly just dump the code that AI generated in the production system and then, you know, get into trouble.

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Yeah, it's more like, I think about racing cars. You have the one driving and the one giving the directions next to them and they say right, left, and they have to, they don't have to drive, they don't even have to know how to drive, they just have to know how things work.

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Yeah, yeah, but yeah that's true. But you still need a license to sit in the driver's seat, right? So that's what matters. Same with AI as well. So you should need to understand the repercussions of it. You need to know how to leverage it in effective way so that your day to day repetitive tasks can be automated.

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As it's a typical problem people now say, but you don't need the junior programmers anymore. What would you say to that?

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Yeah, I mean like you know there have been several surveys like coming both supporting AI and wipe coding and also articles about this which says okay, now companies don't need any junior engineers. So that's not true. Like if I had to start from you know, scratch as a engineer or you know, student coming out of college and you know, trying into the software industry, I would spend more time on the AI. Like AI is one thing that will lend me more opportunities, it will help me to go into certain direction. But as I mentioned the nature of the work is changing. So even the junior engineers, they can leverage the tools and they can improve their day to day coding life. So it's not like okay, you don't need any junior engineers. As I mentioned, we are not still there where you just ask AI to you know, develop a site and make it production ready and then deploy and then let's go and you know, announce it to the public. So we are still not there yet. It will help you. There are a lot of tools like lovable, there are replit, cursor, all these tools will help you create the website but it is still up to you to go through what is the generated output, whether you know, it satisfies all your requirements and then only you will go ahead and publish it. So that's where we still need tutorial engineers but the nature of work is changing.

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I remember when I in the 90s learned HTML and at a certain point I thought okay, I know all the HTML, what is there to come?

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Yeah, I mean yeah, I do have some nightmares when I was you know a junior engineer working at Microsoft back in India. So there was this one time I was developing a website for Fortune Finder customer and I spent like a couple of hours just trying understand, you know, a difference between diff padding and you know, giving some space and I was struggling there. Like I had to literally go to the UX designer to help me out. But with all the AI tools now. Right. So it just creates that entire site. Like you know, if you need any pop up models or anything, it will automatically generate the code for you so you don't have to spend too much time there. So I do really feel bad for you know, sad for all the HTML and CSS folks. But again they can also leverage this. They can use the AI and generate, then they can go ahead and check whether this is what they need and then they can play with it. So that's where I don't think that HTML and CSS guys will be out of job with AI tools but they can spend in a different way.

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Yeah. If I think how many people still don't have a website or have a website that looks like from the 2000s, I mean there's potential and if I can make websites easier, if I have those guys and they don't charge thousands of of dollars for, for something but, but it's significant amount I can afford like a mom and pop store then yeah I will. There will be just more good websites.

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I guess more good websites. And you know think about people who are doing you know, small scale businesses, right. Earlier they had to spend like $5,000 to a developer who can create site for their business. Like let's take a small example of you know, if you're a restaurant business owner in India like roadside street food vendor or you know a small shop where you are selling some food. So now instead of directly going to developer and paying 5,000 to develop a site for them, you can just use any of these tools, write a proper customized prompt according to your need and then you can just generate that entire site within like less than an hour. So that's how we are progressing where anybody like even if you're a business owner or if you're non technology person, you can still go ahead and use tools. So not all tools are like you know, developer heavy. There are tools which are you know, business oriented as well. Even if you are never a developer, you can still use those tools and generate a basic website. Like you don't have to create a you know, super fancy and jazzy website but still you can go ahead and develop a normal website which, which will fit your needs.

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The, I mean the whole tools. Let's come to that a little bit later. But, but the first thing I wanted to ask because we talked now just about websites but wipe coding is so much more. Can you give some examples? What can I code? Or like let's say I'm, I'm, I have little knowledge on Programming maybe dabbled a little bit, or am I interested in going in in it? And I have tools like the co pilot which what can I do?

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Yeah, like there's GitHub Copilot from Microsoft. So it sits right within your IDE. IDE is like your main tool for writing code, right. So we have Visual Studio and Visual Studio code, both are from Microsoft. And with this GitHub copilot, what it does is basically it sits right within your studio and it looks at what you are typing and what is the thing that you are writing code about. So let's say I want to write a method. So generally, you know, in traditional programming you'll go ahead and you'll write the method name, method parameters and then you'll start writing. Right. As soon as you write a comment or just a method name, GitHub Copilot thinks, okay, this is what user needs and it will give you a prompt with suggestion. So it's not forcing you to directly use it. It will still be a suggestion to you. If you like it, what AI generated the copilot generated code, then you will press tab and accept that suggestion. Or you can just ignore it and you can write more prompts or you can start writing your own code. Like if you're a traditional developer who don't want to use the GitHub copilot, you can still go ahead and type whatever you want to do it. But with GitHub Copilot, it is giving you automatic suggestions. So that makes your life much, much easier. Let's say you want to write 20 lines of code. It takes like what, 10, 15 minutes of, you know, keyboard typing. Now everything is automated. It automatically generates that code for you. But if you don't want it, what you can do is you can iterate, you can ask more questions, hey, please don't use this. Use the best practices to generate this code. It will still go ahead and generate it for you. So that is the advantage with Copilot.

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So basically you can do everything with it. It's like whatever you can program, it helps you there.

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Yeah. So when early days of AI and wipe coding. So what it used to do is it used to look at all the repositories, public repositories available in GitHub. And it used to give recommendations based on that. But now the tools have really emerged well and they also improved a lot. Now what it does is it looks at your code, your other code in the same repository and project or solution and based on that it will give you suggestions as Per your best practices. Because everybody follows a different coding standards and coding practices. Like I want to define my variables with proper names. Somebody uses like var X but I want to say var, you know, age or var person's name, something like that. Right. So what it does is it looks at the entire repository, it will understand what is this person's coding standard and, and based on that it will give you suggestions. So that is like personalized, customized suggestions that Copilot can give to you. So that is the beauty of, you know, this tools.

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That's, that's interesting because there was a joke I heard that programmers don't program, but they steal code. So they basically go to other programs and cut out the code.

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Yeah, like before AI, like people used to do that with Stack Overflow, right? Everybody used to go to this website called Stack Overflow. They used to ask questions, steal code from there and use it in production. So there was this funny incident happened, I think with Samsung or one company where the developers accidentally copy paste everything that was from Stack Overflow and then they found a very, very big bug and that caught attention of all the developers. Like this is what you should not be doing. This is completely a bad practice. Directly copying code without even looking what it contains. So with AI, that's what people were also thinking initially. Okay, so it will just go ahead and look at all the public repositories and d the code. But no, it's beyond that. Like we have come to a place where AI is smart enough to think about your method, your requirements and then it is suggesting based on that the security was a major concern earlier in the earlier days, but now tools are also improving. It's also providing you best security practices also so that you can directly make use of that AI generated code. But at the end of the day, as a developer, you still have to test it, okay, Directly, don't dump this AI code into the production. You have to test it, make sure that it passes all the test cases. Even test cases can also be generated with AI these days. So that's another advantage. But yeah, this is what as a developer we still need developers who can go through that AI generated code, make sure that this is what they want and then they can use it in the production.

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That is with the test cases. We had for firm my work we had a, let's say they were programmers, but they were like they learned their programming style in the 90s and everybody in their firm learned from them. And so they programmed like this and then there was like we had a new One. And we asked them, why didn't you make test cases? Oh, that's really complicated. Takes a lot of time. And I mean that might be true, but there were so many bugs in the program that it would have made sense. And if you now say you can use AI for testing, I mean it's a significant improvement, I guess.

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Yeah, significant improvement because like most of the old legacy code bases. That's right, like old legacy code bases still don't have 100% code coverage. So with AI tools now you can basically leverage GitHub Copilot and generate all the test cases. You can definitely improve your code coverage from at least 70% if it was previously 70%. Now it can go all the way to 90% or even higher with the help of AI tools. But again, with any generated code, even for the prediction code or even for the test cases, you have to again make sure this is what you wanted or not. Because sometimes what happens is earlier AI also doing lot of hallucination. So the test cases, it was generating all crappy code. So you have to go and iterate multiple times to meet your project requirements. But now what you can do is you can give more data to it. Like the more data you give to AI to help it understand your requirement and understand your coding standards, then it can generate really effective test cases. That's what my experience with.

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Yeah, yeah, data is always the case. But coming to one thing, because we talk about like how things work and then one thing is really important is your book wipe coding with GitHub Copilot enhancing productivity by leveraging GitHub Copilot inside visual Studio. And I guess what you do is you walk people through things like how to do this, how to do the whole process.

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Yep, correct. So there has been a recent survey like even after like what, three years of AI ChatGPT there are still 70% of the developers who are still not leveraging this AI tools, be it ChatGPT or GitHub copilot copilot agents, coding agents. So all these are out there, but people are not using it. So what I try to achieve with this book is like provide them with beginners to intermediate level of expertise where they can play with the Visual Studio GitHub copilot. So all my code samples and everything is targeted to visual studio GitHub Copilot, how they can leverage it, how can they start using in their day to day life and how their productivity can be improved. So I've divided it into multiple chapters where they can go through. Right. Starting from installing GitHub Copilot in their Visual Studio. What kind of, you know, premium tiers available. So if you're a student, if you don't have money to spend on these tools, there are still free tier available. So it's just that, you know, you can download Visual Studio student version, you don't need like you know, Professional Enterprise Edition. You can still go ahead with the developer student versions and then you can install the tools and you can start right ahead. Like you know, instead of waiting for to join an industry or any company to use it when you are still a student, you can go ahead and install this and you can try it out. So that's what the book focuses on.

20:36

So it's really like the, the interesting what you say is this thing about the 70% that don't use AI yet. I mean it's crazy number. I think in other industries I heard just something like in let's say normal business things it's 90% don't lose use AI. So the programmers are further ahead. Like most of the people listening here, you use AI, but you have to know we are in a bubble. This is still a bubble and this is correct.

22:05

Wow. Yeah, yeah. So I read this on a Business Insider article. I was also fascinated with that number. Like I mean, you know, with three years of ChatGPT and AI like I expected the number to be, you know, on the lesser side. But 70% is a, you know, really big number. So that's why by 2032 they're expecting like you know, more than a million developers needed in AI. So that's what the estimation is. And you know, who knows this 2026-2025 was year of agents. So we have seen a lot of agents coming up, you know, from different companies. They were spending more time, more resources on developing this, different frameworks and different tools. And I think in 2026 it's going to be like, you know, coding. Like more people wants to use more AI tools in helping their coding day to day life.

22:39

I mean it totally makes sense. You don't have to fire IT people but like we are a small marketing agency. We have one, maybe we hire a second one. Now we have two people who do the IT everything. They have to do all the stuff and if they get tools that make them more efficient, we can't afford more IT people and we don't need them because we are digital marketing agency. We need some IT stuff that definitely and if they can do all the stuff we need and in different areas, I mean they can't be jack of all trades. They know this, they know a little bit of this and it's probably enough to check. So if they use like the copilot and for programming something, it would really help. Yeah, I see it.

23:30

Yeah, totally. Yeah, totally. Like, you know, if you take an example where you know you wanted a Go developer, right, but you have Python developer in your team. So earlier we used to hire people again who are experts in Go programming, but with AI tools now you can still use your Python guy to write code and then convert that code into Go using AI. So that is also totally possible. Right. So that's what, you know, if you need limited resources on your team or on your company, you can leverage AI effectively and still go ahead with like you know, two or three in your IT team to get the job done. So that is totally possible today with AI.

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Yeah, and this is like not just for small firms, that is in general, there's not enough stuff done. And if you have a helper like a copilot. Wow, this is really, really, I mean empowering, I would say, let's see this whole thing like pessimist thing about. Yeah, we fire all the people. There's people who say, okay, they were over hiring during COVID and now it's just a correction and basically that's it.

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Yeah, Recent layoff news from every company. Like, you know, people are laying off and saying that they are shifting their focus towards AI. Right. So yeah, people are cutting down on more resources, but it's not like AI will completely replace your job, but a person who leverages AI definitely can replace you. So that is what the trend is today. So don't think about like AI will completely, you know, with AI you don't need any developers. It's, it's always you have to compete with a person who is leveraging AI and using it better than you. So that's why you have to always continuously upskill your technology, your, you know, tools, skill set related to AI. So that will fetch and that will give you a long run in this industry.

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How does this change your leadership perspective? Because you have to now guarantee that you have to take everybody on board and your team basically.

26:05

Correct? Yeah, it is complicated. Like initially even with Microsoft also they are pushing more towards AI. So as leadership team, like I'm part of the leadership team in SQL Server where we have certain folks who are as driving as AI ambassadors within the org, where we are creating more tools and technologies where all the developers can really use it. So in my org also we are doing a lot of AI related work and we are also enforcing developers to use it. So there are a lot of coding agents. So if it is a simple change earlier you have to go and manually write code and then create PR, send it for review. But with GitHub Copilot coding agents, you just give the coding agent all the information it requires and it will go ahead and create a PR for you. Your job is to go ahead and look what the PR is, make sure if it is compliant to your coding standards, you can still comment and you can get it iterated on top of it. But that's what most of the companies, including Microsoft, we are pushing towards like leverage the AI agents available to help you reduce with all the time and you can use this time somewhere else. Like there are brainstorming sessions or there are some customer escalations happening in your product where you need to dig deeper and do some postmortem. Right. So now you can focus more there and all this repetitive manual task or simple coding tasks that you can give it to the coding agents. So that's where most of the businesses, most of the leaders are enforcing their teams and their companies to go and leverage AI.

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There's two things I have to say to this. First of all, I'm glad that Microsoft still has to do some internal advocacy for AI, that even the firms that are directly at the front of AI, they still have to work on getting the people convinced. This is the first thing that makes me more relaxed. The second thing is.

27:57

Yeah, yeah. So basically like, you know, there are, there are product tools where they create all this GitHub copilots and they do all the AI research work. But there are still other teams within Microsoft. Right. So the overall idea is Microsoft is pushing towards all the teams to leverage AI. If you're not creating new products or not generating anything to AI, you can still go ahead and leverage whatever the AI products that Microsoft already developed. So there is a consumption part, there is new research work. So that's where Microsoft is enforcing and making sure everybody uses AI. So without using in house, you cannot recommend anybody to use it. Right. So that's why there's always a strong focus on also leveraging own AI tools.

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No, but this is my second point exactly. You were emphasizing this. You have to give or you make it easier for the people internally because you give them tools, you help them use the, the AI. It's not just like this is AI, this is the copilot use it. It's just, yeah, you build agents and you probably have seminars, workshops or whatever.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we do a lot of workshops. We do, you know, the learning sessions where we showcase what we are actually leveraging this AI for. It's not like, okay, there is this copilot, just go ahead and use it. Right. So we want to make sure we are getting 100% out of it. Like how you can customize some of the tools and create customized agents that you can leverage rather than just playing with the plain copilot. Right. So that's what most of the teams within Microsoft are doing. So they are developing different agents and how like if you're coming from engineering systems or infrastructure background, where you know, you have a build server where thousands of developers check in code every day, now you have to build and you have to make sure all the build succeeds as soon as anybody checks in something. So earlier we used to have tools or infrastructure to take care of it. Now with AI, it's able to understand the patterns. It will tell you where exactly the problem is, why the build is breaking, and which change is actually introducing this problem. So that makes it easy, like how you are able to detect the problem early and how you can learn from it and how you can improve. That's what AI can be leveraged. It's not just only the coding thing because when you are at the leadership position, you have to think about like okay, I gave coding agent a small task to write a method. Okay, my job is done. No, you have to think beyond that and how you can leverage AI to show me all the patterns where I can now understand easily and I can easily postmortem any issue using AI and how I can improve. So early detection is one thing that AI helps you with and also how you can learn from others mistakes and how you can improve. So this is where AI really shines.

29:28

Oh, this is interesting because it's like away from the programming more on a management or strategic level and seeing the whole picture and yeah, makes it easier to see the whole picture.

31:23

Yeah. So AI is in almost in every product now. Right. So it's not just only the Visual Studio GitHub copilot agent. So you also have multiple copilots in Office 365. So let's take a small example of Outlook or Word. Right. So if you want to draft any email, so in traditionally we used to type our entire email. Now with AI it's giving you suggestion. So you can ask if you want a more formal email or informal email what kind of things you want to include within Your email body, you just give the prompt and it will generate it for you and then you can go ahead and iterate on it. So now we are in a world where copilot or AI agents are almost in everywhere. It's not just only coding but even the business people, the non tech guys can also leverage it in multiple places.

31:34

No, this is, yeah, this is the next level. I mean this is everywhere and you have to also convince those people to use it as the next step.

32:24

Yeah, so back in 2022 it was really hard to convince but now I think with the trend that you know, moving more towards AI, I think it become little easy like as a, as a leadership also people understand what kind of benefits that you get with AI. Again there's always security vulnerabilities, all these are there. But even then more people started leveraging AI more than what I have seen back in 2022 and 2023. So that's a really good shift towards.

32:33

AI I think this is one thing is you didn't explicitly say it, but it's leading. My example is using AI, showing that you as a leadership team, you use AI, you're not afraid to use it, you showcase what you do with AI, so you go ahead and do stuff with AI.

33:04

Yeah, so it's always like lead by example and lead with numbers. Like when you show the actual data, hey, this is what I've used this agent for and this is how it really improved my productivity. This is the percentage, this many PRs. I went ahead and used GitHub coding agents to develop and check it into the code base. If I can show all these numbers then it will definitely convince both developers as well as leadership to enforce and use more AI. So it's always since I'm in database space, I work in Azure SQL database. So whenever you provide with the data that makes more convincing for any developers or any leadership to use that technology.

33:23

This is the nerd advantage. The secret, the card up your sleeve you can play. And as an economist I see, yeah, totally. But yeah, big advantage we have. We can play the data card.

34:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's always a relationship with data and AI. Like you know, even with AI also we have all these different patterns. One of the pattern is rag pattern retrieval, augmented generation. Right. So earlier AI used to hallucinate more and you know, it used to generate some responses as it looks like it is a really good response but it is completely, you know, hallucinated and you know, cooked up response. Right. So what you can do is like you Provide more context and more data to it. Then it understand it knows where exactly it needs to look at it and then it provides a tailored response. If it doesn't know a question that you are asking AI, if it is not within that boundary of data that you have given, it will simply say, I don't know. But earlier it was not doing that with ChatGPT. That's where people started playing with it and they were posting all different memes on X saying that, you know, I asked about prediction about the football match and it gave the answer, okay, Germany won the World Cup. Everybody knows that it didn't. But that's how AI was responding back then. But now with all more context and more data that is given and people are also developing different models. So every day you see a new model coming up from different company. So yeah, more billions of parameters are injected into that model is becoming really, really smart day by day. And that's why the shift happening, it's not like happened over one day or one night. It's. It's a programmatic shift happening from last three years where everybody's moving towards AI.

34:21

Yeah, the, the thing is, the funny thing is because you talked about the predictions and what I did is I did a prediction model, the strategy. But what I did, and this is actually what, what you also say is I uploaded results of the. This was German Nova Premier League. We did Premier League and we uploaded the last five seasons, the results of the last five seasons. And it's exactly what you say because it's not just what's there in ChatGPT, but it's also the data that I gave it. So, yeah, totally, I totally see it.

35:59

Yeah, exactly. When the first version of ChatGPT came, it has only. There was no Internet access available to it back then. And it has data, I think up to 2021 November or 2021 October. So within that context, if you ask questions, it was able to Give. But then 2022 Football World cup was going. So that's where people started using it and getting all sorts of funny answers. But yeah, now it has access to Internet and you know, everybody is coming up with really good models. There's ChatGPT, there's Perplexity. So I use Perplexity a lot. So yeah, they have this new browser as well, Comet browser. So I also use it on my personal machine because in Microsoft, like, you know, like it's not recommended to use other tools. So earlier I, when I was using Cursor, I did get an email, like not to use you know these tools. But yeah, there are a lot of development happening, lot of progress happening in AI where every developer should definitely leverage all these tools.

36:31

There's actually a question talking about your personal AI usage. What is your, your, your wow moment with AI? What's. Where do you AI now where you say wow, that's just perfect.

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Yeah. So for my second book, I was working on a book called. Net Aspire. Now they changed the name to just Aspire. So I was building a solution. So I was brainstorming with my co author about what to build the book. We decided to write completely about building a microservice and then dissect each and every chapter about how to build each service and then interconnect it. So when we were thinking through it like we had multiple different suggestions from my side as well as from my co author, like, hey, let's build this service and then we leverage AI. So we gave a really good prompt and it suggested that this will be a really good solution to build and we went ahead with that. But the coding part, everything we had to write because at that time back then, 2023, it was not as good as today. But the prompt and the kind of design that it gave with all different microservices, how it really interconnects and how you can focus a particular microservice in your chapter, that was really fascinating. That was a warm moment for me back in 2024. And yeah, since then I've leveraged AI a lot in my posys. I was very hesitant to use it directly in production because I cannot give context about my code base because Azure SQL is not an open source. There are other open source products, but Azure SQL, it's an enterprise product and it's not open source. So I was very hesitant to take my code and dump it in replit or dump it in cursor because I cannot share that. So that was another very big decision advantage. But once we have GitHub Copilot, which is like in house product now it comes directly in Visual Studio, so it knows about my code. But also there is in Settings you can check a checkbox where you don't want this information to go and store it in the cloud. Like you don't want GitHub Copilot to leverage whatever information, the context that you're giving, you can store that personally to your organization only. So that is an advantage that they have introduced, let's say some banking customers or some other, you know, sensitive government agencies are working right. So they cannot share any of their code to GitHub copilot. So there they can select this particular setting and everything stays within their machine. Nothing goes out of that. So that is another advantage.

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Oh yeah, this is actually a thing. Why I think Microsoft has a huge advantage because it thinks about all the problems with data protection. As I'm from Europe and I mean, California have, has rules and I think, yeah, 140 countries around the world have rules there. And Microsoft is one of those players who really keeps, tries to keep this, the privacy laws there. And it's really, it's not just, just for, for you. Europe has regulations and everything, but your private data shouldn't be somewhere else. It's a firm's data. Not in the sense of your private data, but this is your firm. I mean, you're not allowed to put it online.

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Yeah, yeah. So Microsoft has like, you know, six, seven core principles and data privacy transparency. So trust is one important, important thing within Microsoft. So any product that we develop and release to the external customers, we want to make sure that we protect their data. Nobody wants their data to be leaked on the Internet. Right. So that's where Microsoft really shines. All the enterprise products that Microsoft develops, they make sure that all this GDPR or any regulations that it satisfies before releasing to the customers.

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No, that's, that's really good. That's definitely a plus point. Yeah. Now I'm, now I'm missing a segue, but I have to talk about it. You are a docker captain, the 35th docker captain in the US what does that mean? I read a little about it, but I let you tell it because you're probably better at explaining.

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Yeah, sure. So before AI, people were running behind cloud. Right. So I have, like, I was fortunate enough to be working in this decade where I've seen two big disruptions in the industry. One is in cloud back in 2010and 2011 and now a change in AI. So back in, you know, during the cloud shift, in order to run any website, you need to develop it as a container and then deploy it in any of the cloud providers. So the container has been like with the evolution of Kubernetes and with the containers and Docker technologies. So that has completely shifted the cloud the way that people look at the cloud frameworks or cloud technologies. So docker, they started, okay, let's go ahead and create this program which is called Docker Captain. And they select only very, very few top experts in the field where they can talk about the Docker. They write blogs About Docker, they go and participate in sessions where they discuss about the new AI features or new Docker related features. And what they have done is like Docker was a container company before and with the shift in AI it's not a container company anymore. So they are also focusing more on AI side. And with Docker the advantage that you get is with the containers and with the isolation, you can develop your own AI agents locally or on the Docker hub, you can publish them and people can start using it. So that's the advantage that Docker already gets. So with the shift in AI and introducing all these features right now, everybody started leveraging Docker more. So recently we had a summit in Istanbul, so I was invited there and they really showcase some of the new AI features that's coming in Docker. So I wrote an article also for, for generating this agents you need to have something called developer API keys. Like you have to pay some money and get this API key so that as a developer you can hit their APS and use their models within your code. So what I have done is like they were using like if I want to use cloud models you have to get payment to. You have to pay to Anthropic and get this API keys. If you want to use GPTs, you have to go and leverage this from OpenAI. So I came up with this GitHub models which Microsoft again they released it GitHub team. So where they showcase all these models, it's plug and play. You don't have to generate different API keys, you just have to generate one token and you can switch between any model. So I recommended this in their Docker product and the leadership, they really looked at it and they embraced that into their product and I wrote an article about it. So how as a developer you don't have to pay any money, you can still go ahead and use GitHub models and use it in Docker agents. So that's about the Docker. So the shift is happening where everybody's moving towards AI. So yeah, that's about the Docker and Docker captain. Nice.

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Yeah. Good. Yeah, I learned something. Let's come to the last question of the interview. I realized I didn't really prepare you for Freud. This is the Terminator or Matrix question. So do you think there is Terminator scenario coming ahead or Matrix scenario? What are your thoughts about it?

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Yeah, as I mentioned like every year there is a new advancements happening in AI. So for me I think this 2026 year, so 2025 was completely about AI agents. So everybody came up with different AI agents framework. Even Microsoft launched something called AI Microsoft Agent Framework. They combined two different frameworks and they created this one agent framework. Most people started using it. So in 2026 my what I'm guessing is like more people all the tools available. So the GitHub, copilot or cursors or Replit. Now meta acquired Manas, right? So that is a big deal. So everybody has their own different tools and meta was lagging and now they acquired Manas and they were able to get into this AI coding space as well. So what I'm guessing in 2026 I think more wipe coding and more tools that people start leveraging with coding agents and the productivity boost will definitely be there. But at the same time as a developer you have to upskill and you have to learn about these tools and technologies. As long as you're not upskilling right then there's always a chance of getting laid off in any company. So that is the only thing that I always encourage all the developers to make sure leverage as much as possible, learn as much as new AI related skill set and keep it ready. So anything can happen in 2026. So that's my suggestion to all the developers.

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But going in the long run in five years then Terminators are coming. What do you say?

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Like the robotics, right? So people already in China, you have read or seen news about the AI robots, right? Even Elon is also working towards like you know, human robot, right? So that is totally possible. Like you know, nobody thought about, you know, the AI advancement what we are seeing today, five years ago, nobody like if you are told about a hey AI going to replace you or AI going to generate code, you don't need a developer or you don't need a HTML CSS guy today people would have laughed about it. Right. So in five years everything has changed. So in next five years also I'm guessing more AI inclusion in robotics, even in medicine and different industries. I think there will be a huge disruption with AI. As long as you can embrace the change. I think that will really fetch you more, you know, productivity as well as more money to your organization. And that's what I'm also guessing. So yeah, this is the current trend right now with the AI.

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Yeah. Okay. No, we don't know. Yeah, so I take of it five years can happen anything and everything.

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It's hard to predict in this current trend because everything is in the air. So we never know. Maybe next two years only there will be human robots, right? So yeah, even self driving cars, like right now there are way more. There's this company in California, like they are already doing this, but Elon and other companies, they're also thinking about like, you know, introducing self driving cars again in every particular industry they are leveraging AI only. So behind the scenes it's AI doing the work for you. Right. But also there are safety concerns, security. So all these things is always there. So that's why it's really hard to predict what will happen in next five years. But I think we are moving the right direction. That's what I feel. Yeah.

48:32

So the optimism is still there. Good.

49:24

Very good. Yeah, yeah.

49:26

So Sunny, one last thing. The last, last thing. Where can we find you? Where can we connect to you?

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Yeah, so you can find me on LinkedIn. If you search with my name, you can easily Find me on LinkedIn. So I'm also really active on X. I'll also share my X handle with you. And I'm also a active mentor on ADP list. So there is a site where I go ahead and, you know, mentor all the folks who wants to break into tech industry students. Even the industry professionals who are at the career junction, they want to switch between carrier roles. I also do mentoring there. So if you just search with my name, you'll get all the links on Google. Yeah. So you can, you know, ping me on LinkedIn or anyplace and happy to chat about AI and help you with any questions or any, you know, career related suggestions that you have. Cool.

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And I put the name because Sunny is just the nickname is Naga Santosh Reddy. And I put the name in the show notes because this is easy to find if you just click on the. For everybody who doesn't know what the show notes are, this is just the notes from the podcast. So you just open the podcast and you see then Sunny and I put all the links I have in there. You just click on them. Yeah. Thank you, Sunny for answering a lot of questions here I had and making me a little bit wiser. Yeah, thank you.

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Yeah, thank you. Thank you for having me. And yeah, it was really nice to talk to you and I should appreciate all the work you're doing with different podcasts. So I got a chance to, you know, watch a couple of podcasts and you know, these are all like interesting discussions that you ask really different questions and help the community also to learn about new tools and new technologies. So yeah, thanks for doing.

51:30

Yeah, thanks Sunny. That was great. I learned a lot about wipe coding. I personally code a little bit with replit, which means I don't code the program codes, but how the copilot actually works and how it helps. This is one of the things. The other thing I found really spectacular is how you use 70% or how you free 70% of your time and not reduce workforce by 70% but do more, do better stuff.

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Do.

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Yeah, more efficient stuff with your time. Why? Because you use AI. So if we all follow this, this rule like use AI, get better at what we do, we really can achieve more, we can have more productivity, get out more products, whatever it is you want, or reduce time, work time, whatever it is. So that was really. That blew me away. So thanks Sunny for the great interview. And now if you never want to miss an episode, go to BeginnersGuide NL to follow my newsletter and get all the episodes in your mailbox. One last thing. I want to thank Andrea Andreescu, Lotte Brown, and Melanie Westermann for helping me producing this podcast. Hi, it's Diegma from Argo Berlin signing off.

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