Ten Things We Love About Developers - Capto Weekly #13
Standing up for our friends... and what's right.
They might be one of the roles that’s been hit hardest by the headlines and AI advances over the past few months. This week we help them push back on the misconception that their positions have been made redundant. Maybe the world doesn’t need any hand-written code one day, but it certainly needs people who know how to manage what’s being generated.
Yes, we do have a bias, because when Capto was founded we made a bet that building in code was better. We were right when people told us “no-code will replace this” or “low-code” is faster. Fast forward to today and almost every serious AI & automation project we see ends up in code... with a developer involved.
Why? Here’s only 10 reasons:
They guardrail LLMs and stop impactful hallucinations.
They account for failures, timeouts, and exceptions.
They eliminate duplicates, streamline the code and make it “beautiful”, not gibberish.
They build structure, frame, and context so Agents don’t get confused by human interactions.
They isolate side effects and protect against hostile inputs, so one bad output doesn’t cascade.
They have supreme vision through logs, traces, and replayability.
They train Agents for consistently better accuracy.
They know proper security and where the risk of a hack is.
They manage cost, latency, and token-budgeting.
They know how to push constant evolution and improvement based on the initial code.
Based on real experiences and tales that we’ve heard or seen directly. It took us only a few minutes to compile these advantages of developer involvement.
Let us know if you’d like more details and the risks of what could happen if ignored...
Do you have access to a developer for your projects? Call or hug them to say thanks. If you don’t... maybe you should...
Capto
Company updates worth highlighting.
Back from the road! 1 week, 3 countries, 10+ Finance teams, 800km of driving in one day, all to say that Alexis is happy to catch up on some rest.
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“What’s Actually Working With Agent AI Right Now” Is the headline from Alexis’ appearance on the SaugaTalks podcast with Irene Lyakovetsky.
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Through Agents of AI, we meet our heroes. Excited to reveal the identity of Episode 28’s “The Podcast Payments Robot“ as Justin Hanna of The Payments Shed Podcast - one of our all-time favorite programs collides with our own podcast.
Where to start? Our advice for what seems to help Finance teams the most when it comes to finding AI inspiration that translates to reality.
Spokes
A section dedicated to highlighting the work of our official allies.
Have we collaborated before? Would you like to? Looking for a boost in visibility? We are continuing to build out this program and open to discuss adding members to our directory.
You
Doing our part in a community-based approach where our feeds, inboxes, and meetings are the source for learning and happiness.
We’re going to stick with a commitment of highlighting any post that eloquently shines a light on the “prototype trap” as Antti Pasila coins it in this post... and all the surrounding risks and downfalls of “vibe coding from the hip” as we’d describe it.
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