Ethan LockshinSales at NVIDIA focused on AI adoption

I asked Ben Solari of OpenHands, fresh off a $20M raise, which tasks engineers should automate first

Name: I asked Ben Solari of OpenHands, fresh off a $20M raise, which tasks engineers should automate first
Uploaded: 2025-12-06T11:00:53+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Ethan Lockshin
Description: Ben Solari of OpenHands says engineers spend only 20-40% of their time on roadmap work. The rest goes to maintenance, bug fixes, and migrations. That's…

6 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Ben Solari of OpenHands says engineers spend only 20-40% of their time on roadmap work. The rest goes to maintenance, bug fixes, and migrations. That's where AI agents should start automating.

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What are the first tasks you think every engineering team should automate first using AI agents?
What you're going to see in the near term for use cases for cloud coding agents is going to be around large code bases, and it's probably going to be the unsexy work of maintaining that code. Only a fraction of engineers actually get to work on the fun stuff, as only 20 to 40% of engineering effort really goes into roadmap and innovation work. So that leaves a pretty big chunk for agents to help automate the redundant tasks. So I'd say code migration, maintenance, bug fixing, support. Those are all very ripe use cases for cloud coding agents like Open Hands, and then.