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334: A developer's Hippocratic Oath in the age of AI (with Sonatype's Mitchell Johnson)
What the Dev?
What the Dev?
334: A developer's Hippocratic Oath in the age of AI (with Sonatype's Mitchell Johnson)
Nov 11, 2025
In this episode, Dave interviews Mitchell Johnson, chief product development officer at Sonatype, about the notion of a Hippocratic Oath for developers, where you do no harm to the codebase, and how AI is impacting that.
They discuss:
- The responsibility a developer has to keeping their codebase healthy whenever they add a new feature
- How being able to output code faster with AI makes it harder to have visibility into how changes impact downstream systems
- How AI assisted coding may actually slow things down