Eye on A.I. · Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Alexander Whedon explains that Subquadratic's strategy is to focus on improving AI's ability to read and understand code, as this is where most of an AI coding agent's time is spent. He believes that optimizing for comprehension will yield greater benefits than solely focusing on code generation.
“So, we're seeing a lot of interest in large language models for coding, and there's a lot of hype around agents that can write code. But I think the real breakthrough is going to come from models that are really good at understanding code, at reading code, at reasoning about code.”