
Kevin Altschuler
AI Developer Tools (DevEx) engineer at Dropbox; co-authored Dropbox's Nova internal AI coding agent platform.
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Aug 27, 2026
Why Dropbox Built Their Own AI Coding Platform
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Kevin AltschulerGUEST
So I mentioned briefly that I was on a different team working on a similar project and kind of joined forces with the Nova team.

Kevin AltschulerGUEST
That project was one where With no interactivity, we were launching agentic jobs to fix locations in the code base based on the description.

Kevin AltschulerGUEST
And the key thing after doing a bunch of user research that I kind of realized while doing this, and this was like kind of two years ago, right at the birth of agentic stuff, was that because agentic stuff makes coding so much faster and easier.

Kevin AltschulerGUEST
The level, this was kind of my realization that everyone had two years ago is that like stuff is moving up just like a tier of thinking, right? And what that meant for me designing these tools was that rather than launching tiny jobs across many little locations, like I thought would have been useful, people actually want to like manage this themselves.

Kevin AltschulerGUEST
Like the tools are so powerful that they want to be able to work with it and manage all of these code changes in one session.
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Ankit JainHOST
So what do you think is today, maybe kind of like a wrapping up question, is the next big challenge? Like where do you see kind of like, you know, the whole SDLC bottleneck or sort of like where is the biggest pain to point even in your DX surveys? I