# Welcome to AIE CODE - Jed Borovik, Google DeepMind AI Engineer ยท 2026-01-05 Jed Borovik, Google DeepMind's Gemini assistant and lead of the Jewels coding agent product engineering team, opens the 2025 AI Engineering Code Summit in New York by declaring that the most important problem in applied AI is code. He frames the event as a single-track summit designed to push the entire AI coding industry forward, not any single company. Borovik highlights the previous leadership track, which covered how AI transforms software organizations, and sets the day's focus on patterns, systems, and products enabling that transformation. He thanks DeepMind as presenting sponsor, noting the timely release of Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro, along with Anthropic as platinum sponsor and other gold and silver sponsors. Borovik encourages attendees to visit sponsor booths in the expo area and expresses excitement for the keynotes to come. ## Questions this episode answers ### What is Jed Borovik's role at Google and what team does he lead? Jed Borovik, speaking at the 2025 AI Engineering Code Summit, stated he is Gemini's assistant at Google and leads the product engineering team for the Jewels coding agent. He was the emcee for the second day, which focused on coding agents and labs. [1:02](https://aie.addtry.com/eb183cc4-f780-48e8-a6a6-99d05303219e?t=62000) ### How does the AI Engineering Code Summit differ from the AI Engineering World's Fair? Jed Borovik explained that the AI Engineering Conference has two formats: a world's fair and a summit. The summit, like this Code Summit, is intentionally smaller and single-track, designed to bring together the best people in the world around a single important theme, in contrast to the larger, multi-track world's fair. [1:58](https://aie.addtry.com/eb183cc4-f780-48e8-a6a6-99d05303219e?t=118000) ### What were the focuses of the first and second days of the AI Engineering Code Summit? According to Jed Borovik, the first day of the AI Engineering Code Summit featured a leadership track on how AI is transforming software organizations. The second day, which he opened, dives into the patterns, systems, and products that enable AI coding, moving from organizational impact to the technical implementation details. [2:13](https://aie.addtry.com/eb183cc4-f780-48e8-a6a6-99d05303219e?t=133000) ## Key moments - **[0:00] Welcome** - **[1:02] Host Intro** - [1:02] Jed Borovik introduces himself as Gemini's assistant at Google and product engineering lead for the Jewels coding agent. - **[1:19] Why Code?** - [1:44] "If you're working in technology, the most important problem of our day is AI. And if you're working on applied AI, your most important problem is code." - **[1:58] Summit Format** - **[2:13] Yesterday Recap** - **[2:42] Today's Focus** - **[3:03] Sponsors** - [3:16] Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro this week, says Jed Borovik. - **[3:41] Kickoff** ## Speakers - **Jed Borovik** (guest) ## Topics Coding Agents ## Mentioned Anthropic (company), DeepMind (company), Google (company), Gemini (product), Jewels (product), Nano Banana Pro (product) ## Transcript ### Welcome Jed Borovik. **Jed Borovik** [0:25] Hello, good morning. Welcome to the 2025 AI Engineering Code Summit in New York. How are we doing? **Guest** [0:34] Good. **Jed Borovik** [0:35] Woo! Allright, it's early, it's Friday. Thank you all for being here. Raise your hand if you've been to one of these events before, an AI engineering conference before. Allright, pretty good. So for those on, uh, those watching the live stream, about half the hands are up. Keep your hands up, keep your hands up. Two or more events? Okay. We still have a couple. Three? Four? Allright, one, two hands. Five? Are you sure? There's only been four, Alex. **Guest** [1:01] Not in front. **Jed Borovik** [1:02] Okay, okay. We'll talk afterwards. Okay, well, welcome. Whether it's your first time or you've been to many of these, we're all excited you're here. Um, my name is Jed Borovik. Um, I'm Gemini's assistant at Google, and I also work on the Jewels coding agent, uh, I lead the product engineering team. ### Why Code? **Jed Borovik** [1:19] Um, and I'm your emcee for today. So why are we here? I'm sure many of you are familiar with Richard Hamming's famous "You and Your Research" talk. In that talk, he describes asking his colleagues, "What's the most important problem in your field?" And thenright after that, he asks, "So why aren't you working on that?" I spend a lot of time hiring, and this idea comes up again and again. If you're working in technology, the most important problem of our day is AI. And if you're working on applied AI, your most important problem is code. This is a special event to push the whole AI coding industry forward. It's not an event for a single company, but across all companies in this industry. The AI engineering conference has two brands: a world's fair and a summit. This being a summit event is intentionally smaller than the world's fair. It's intentionally single track. It's designed to bring the best people together in the world about a single important theme. ### Summit Format **Jed Borovik** [2:13] For this event, that theme is AI coding. Yesterday, many of you also experienced the leadership track. Make some noise so we know you're still alive if you were in that track. ### Yesterday Recap **Jed Borovik** [2:25] For those of you who were there, shout out some of your favorite talks. **Guest** [2:29] Stanford. **Jed Borovik** [2:30] Yeah, Stanford. Yeah, that was a good, that was a great one. **Guest** [2:33] Gene and Steve. **Jed Borovik** [2:34] Gene and Steve. That was, that was a spicy one. What else? **Guest** [2:38] Every. **Jed Borovik** [2:39] Every. Yeah, Dan from Every. **Guest** [2:41] Jewels. **Jed Borovik** [2:42] Ah, good choice, good choice. Okay. Well, yesterday was a great day. It was about how AI is transforming software organizations. Today, we're going to dive into the patterns, systems, and products that make all of that possible. But whether you consider yourself an AI leader, an AI engineer, or something in between, we're glad you're here. ### Sponsors **Jed Borovik** [3:03] We also wouldn't be here without our amazing sponsors. I would like to thank them, especially our presenting sponsor, DeepMind. Yeah, give it up, give it up. And what an amazing week for DeepMind. I'm biased, but I hope you all get a chance to use Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro, which came out this week. I'd also like to thank Anthropic as our platinum sponsor and the gold sponsors you see on this screen. Yeah, we'll do one big round at the end. And finally, we want to thank our silver sponsors. Let's put our hands together for all of these sponsors. Yeah, give it up, give it up. All these sponsors will be downstairs in the expo area. They have booths, and, um, I recommend going down there to chat with folks from all these companies. They'll be open all day after the keynotes. Allright, with that, let's get started. --- This library is powered by PodHood (https://podhood.com), the podcast website platform.