Jed Borovik, product lead for Google Jules coding agent, sets the stage for the 2025 AI Engineering Summit. He argues that while AI is the macro trend, the micro reality of code generation is where the actual value is won or lost.
Quick Insight: This summary targets builders who recognize that code generation is the primary engine of the intelligence age. It distills the opening of the 2025 AI Engineering Summit into a roadmap for prioritizing the hardest problems in tech.
"If you're working in technology, the most important problem of our day is AI. And if you're working on applied AI, your most important problem is code."
"Today we're going to dive into the patterns, systems, and products that make all of that possible."
"Why aren't you working on that?"
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Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the 2025 AI Engineering Code Summit in New York. How are we doing? All right, it's early. It's Friday. Thank you all for being here. Raise your hand if you've been to one of these events before, an AI engineering conference before. All right, pretty good. So, for those watching live stream, about half the hands up, keep your hands up. Keep your hands up. Two or more events. Okay, still have a couple. Three, four. All right, one, two hands. Five. Are you sure? There's only been four. Okay. Okay. We'll talk afterwards. Okay. Well, welcome. Whether it's your first time or you've been to many of these. We're all excited you're here. Um, my name is Jed Borovik. Um, I'm Gemini's assistant at Google and I also work on the Jules coding agent. I lead the product engineering team. Um, and I'm your MC for today.
So, why are we here? I'm sure many of you are familiar with Richard Hamming's famous you and your research talk. In that talk, he describes asking his colleagues, what's the most important problem in your field? And then right after that, he asks, "So why aren't you working on that?" I spend a lot of time hiring and this idea comes up again and again. If you're working in technology, the most important problem of our day is AI. And if you're working on applied AI, your most important problem is code. This is a special event to push the whole AI coding industry forward. It's not event for a single company but across all companies in this industry.
The AI engineering conference has two brands a world's fair and a summit. This being a summit event is intentionally smaller than the world's fair. It's intentionally single track. It's designed to bring the best people together in the world about a single important theme for this event. That theme is AI coding. Yesterday, many of you also experienced a leadership track. Make some noise so we know you're still alive if you were in that track. For those of you who are there, shout out some of your favorite talks.
Stanford. Yeah, Stanford. Yeah, that was a good That was a great one. Jean and Steve. Jean and Steve. That was that was a spicy one. What else? Every Dan from Every Ah, good choice. Good choice. Okay. Well, yesterday was a great day. It was about how AI is transforming software organizations. Today we're going to dive into the patterns, systems, and products that make all of that possible. But whether you consider yourself an AI leader, an AI engineer, or something in between, we're glad you're here.
We also wouldn't be here without our amazing sponsors. I would like to thank them, especially our presenting sponsor, DeepMind. Yeah, give it up. Give it up. And what an amazing week for DeepMind. I'm biased, but I hope you all get a chance to use Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro, which came out this week. I'd also like to thank Anthropic as our platinum sponsor and the gold sponsors you see on this screen. Yeah, we we'll do one big round at the end. And finally, we want to thank our silver sponsors. Let's put our hands together for all of these sponsors. Yeah, give it up. Give it up. All these sponsors will be downstairs in the expo area. They have booths and I recommend going down there to chat with folks from all these companies. They'll be open all day after the keynotes. All right, with that, let's get started.
