AI Dev Tools: What 100K Engineers at Google Really Taught Us

AI developer productivity, agentic workflows, and the lessons learned running engineering tools for 100,000+ software engineers at Google.

John Montgomery, CCO at GitKraken, sits down with Asim Hussain, co-founder of Alterion AI and former Google VP of Engineering Productivity, to get real about what AI actually changes for engineering teams in 2025.

Asim spent 18 years at Google overseeing eight billion lines of code across Search, Chrome, Android, Ads, and Cloud. He helped launch one of the earliest AI coding experiments in 2019, well before Gemini, and watched
the industry evolve from basic line completion all the way to agentic development. His takeaways are grounded, specific, and worth bookmarking.

Whether you are leading a team of 5 or managing engineering productivity across an enterprise, this conversation cuts through the noise on AI coding tools, developer workflows, and what it actually means to build software in the agentic era.

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