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Max Heckel is the founding engineer and CTO of Ariso. Before starting Ariso, he worked at Google, McGraw Hill, JupiterOne, and created SciSummary.
LinkedIn ↗This isn't about autocomplete anymore, or a slightly smarter Clippy. We're talking about a bot that took a feature request from a chat message, understood the business context, scanned the entire codebase, and opened a production-ready Pull Request. It did it in 20 minutes. While we were getting coffee, the software built itself. This isn't the future. This is Tuesday.
Managing a coding CEO isn't about stopping them from coding. It's about building a padded room where they can do cool karate moves without breaking the furniture.
Coding agents aren’t going to steal your job—but engineers who learn how to work with them will absolutely outpace those who don’t. At our company, we don’t treat AI as a novelty or a replacement for thinking. We treat it like a junior engineering team that never sleeps. Every night, we hand off a list of tasks to our coding agents. By morning, we’re staring at a stack of pull requests—some useful, some disposable, all cheap to generate.
Hidden context messages keep user-facing LLM chats clean while giving the model rich, per-message instructions—turning conversations into a predictable, tool‑driven workflow engine with a tiny amount of code.
