Present interests rather than a forecast

  • Pocock describes himself as a teacher rather than a pundit. He emphasizes making current tools useful and declines to claim special knowledge about the next several years. 41:50 42:15
  • He is interested in software factories: systems that initiate work and improve codebases over time with increasing automation. This is a direction he wants to explore, not a finished system demonstrated in the interview. 42:31

Open problems he wants to solve

  • Long-term codebase stewardship. He finds agents weak at choosing maintainable solutions for future contributors and wants to improve that behavior. 42:56
  • Organizing many agents. He says he has not yet seen an approach he regards as the right solution. 43:26
  • Better open models and token efficiency. He would welcome an open model at the capability level he describes as Opus 5.5, along with plain communication and fast delivery. These are hopes, not reported availability. 43:48