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David Cramer

CEO & Co-Founder, Sentry

Search every verified David Cramer interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. David Cramer, CEO and co-founder of Sentry, participated in a panel discussion on agentic development at Convex's Abstract conference in San Francisco on October 8, 2026, moderated by James Cowling alongside Jean-Denis Greze and Theo Browne. During the discussion, Cramer described Sentry as "the non-AI company on the panel" and said that while the company does not experience the same growth bubbles as some others, it continues to seek ways to leverage AI, viewing software as a productivity tool and AI as another step in increasing its efficiency. He noted that most of Sentry's benefits from AI so far have been internal. Cramer also addressed the safety of AI-assisted code changes, saying that parts of a codebase touching the API layer, authentication, data storage, encryption, and keys warrant friction or delay in review on GitHub, while product-layer work that does not involve such concerns often requires less thorough testing. He reflected on his early career, stating he began contributing to open source software on the internet at age 15, and emphasized that engineering involves solving human problems within constraints, not just writing code.

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“The amount of money would have been like 30 to 50k for bug bounties if we paid that out. And it was like $1,000 in in compute.”

“SaaS is not dead — people will continue to pay for services that derisk their business; pricing models may evolve, but platforms remain valuable and the market is overreacting to short‑term noise.”

“We budgeted more for developer tools than we ever have; we added $15k per developer for cloud code which is not enough — my spend is $200 to $300 a day and I need like $3,000 a day in ROI for that spend to be justified.”

“MCP is not a bad idea, mind you. It's just not that good right now. It's a good architecture and it makes a lot of sense.”

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