Jody Hagins

Jody Hagins earned a master's degree during the AI winter of the 1980s, authoring seven academic publications in less than a year before deciding the publish-or-perish route wasn't for him. After spending grad school in Lisp and Smalltalk, he naturally began his career writing Unix kernel code in C. After getting C++ code running in the kernel, he spent most of the last 35 years in what eventually became known as the HFT space. He approaches AI with the perfect mix of historical skepticism and practical curiosity—and has spent more time than he'd like to admit discovering how to make generative AI tools create good C++.