For years there have been well-understood best practices for accelerating developers with quality at scale. But coding agents are forcing all teams to question the old assumptions of the SDLC.
Traditionally, many of the largest companies would standardize on one or two languages because supporting more was too expensive. With coding agents, this is probably wrong: now you should probably just use the best language for the job. Previously, entire teams existed to maintain UI design systems (fun fact - cds.coinbase.com was my old team), but in a world where a Figma MCP can bridge design to code directly, it's not clear that layer of abstraction survives. The playbook for how software gets built is being rewritten right now, and nobody knows the end state.
Despite all of this, at Scott AI, we are making a bet that humans will remain at the center of software development. We believe that as agents take over execution, the bottleneck moves upstream; to humans agreeing on what to build. Pre & post coding agents: getting a group of smart, opinionated people aligned on intent will always be one of the hardest yet most valuable parts of shipping great software. Scott AI is purpose-built to embrace that human-centered process and make it easier.
We build with quality and trust at the center of everything we do. These are operating principles we learned the hard way, building at places like Coinbase, Comun & Ridgline where shipping something unreliable meant losing people's trust in minutes. Our customers are looking to us to show them how to adopt coding agents safely at scale. If we don't live it internally, we have no business selling it.
Our team works out of our office in Hudson Square. Jamie's dog Alvin is usually present as well. The energy is hard to explain without sounding like we're overselling it, so we'll just say, come hang.
We're looking for builders who are obsessed with how coding agents are reshaping the way software should be made. We care about passion more than tenure. We also believe cohesive teams are what make generational companies, not just ideas. So we place a real priority on keeping the team small and tight-knit. Our thinking is simple: if you have a group of people who love working together, it doesn't matter how hard the problem is. If everyone on the team is fired up about what they are doing and who they are building with, a valuable solution will land.
We expect everyone to be working on the most important problems at the company. Builders, not software engineers. And we expect you to scale yourself with agents. Also fun fact: we think token usage is a dumb success metric. Tell us how you decreased your token usage for a given task while maintaining the productivity boost you gained in the first place.
If you've read this far and feel something, reach out!
— The Scott AI team
The team
Staff Engineer & EM at Coinbase. Led multiple developer platform teams powering 95% of Coinbase UI, used by 700+ engineers daily.
Ex Founder. Ex Founding Engineer & Head of Mobile at Comun. Stanford CS, KP Engineering Fellow.
