Making opinionated AI tooling decisions with Nimbalyst's Greg Hinkle

About this episode

Greg Hinkle discusses the future of AI-assisted development and the integration of tools into the developer workflow.

Greg Hinkle, co-founder of Nimbalyst and former VP of Software Engineering at Salesforce, joins Scott to discuss the future of AI-assisted development. They explore the challenges of managing multiple AI coding agents, finding flow state in an agentic world, and why visual workspaces matter. Greg shares Nimbalyst's opinionated approach to integrating tools like Excalidraw, task management, and session organization directly into the developer workflow.

People in this episode

Host: Scott Hanselman

Guest: Greg Hinkle

Topics covered

• AI-assisted development
• tool integration
• developer workflow
• visual workspaces
• coding agents

Keywords

• AI
• development
• Nimbalyst
• Excalidraw
• coding agents
• workflow
• visual workspaces

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nimbalyst, Salesforce

Products: Excalidraw

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