Tariq Shaukat

“The struggle is that AI slop is everywhere. I'm sure you all see this inside of your organizations. I'm sure you see this in your everyday life. That AI is amazing. The models are incredible at generating very plausible output. They're incredible at generating things that sound correct. But are they correct? And how do...”

— From In the Land of AI Agents, the Verifiers Are King — Tariq Shaukat, Sonar, AI Engineer (July 21, 2026)

“You have a initial just amazing boost of productivity of velocity in particular. what you see is a three to 5x boost in productivity or in in velocity. Um that dissipates in three months. At the end of three months, it starts to come back to the the normal before you were using the agents. And if you ask why, it is bec...”

— From In the Land of AI Agents, the Verifiers Are King — Tariq Shaukat, Sonar, AI Engineer (July 21, 2026)

“There's this expression that AI is not going to take people's jobs, it's the people who use AI are going to take the jobs to the people who don't use AI. There's something very similar in the software world, that companies that get better at software, whether you're a car company or a media company or whatever it is, t...”

— From CEO Speaks with Tariq Shaukat of Sonar, GigaOm (March 11, 2025)

“We're seeing that there's an explosion of code, more and more code is being written because you can actually write it faster with some of these tools that are out there. And that code has hallucinations and it has errors and there's malicious attacks that are being put into the LLMs themselves, so that it generates mal...”

— From CEO Speaks with Tariq Shaukat of Sonar, GigaOm (March 11, 2025)

“gen code has bugs, it has stylistic issues, it's got maintainability issues, it has security issues that are getting introduced and in many cases it's actually introducing new vectors on which you can have a problem. There are new ways of potentially causing security issues inside of your codebase using gen that really...”

— From How Safe Is AI-Assisted Coding? | Tariq Shaukat (Sonar), Eye on AI (December 11, 2024)

“there is this accountability crisis — I really think crisis is starting to be the real word here — of who's actually responsible for the AI generated code. It's very easy to say oh the developer that's using the code generator is but it's almost human nature. You don't hire a software developer, they didn't go to schoo...”

— From How Safe Is AI-Assisted Coding? | Tariq Shaukat (Sonar), Eye on AI (December 11, 2024)

“The whole point of college and the whole point of the early stages in your career is learning how to learn. People forget how to do as they progress in their career, they stop really remembering how to learn and they default much more into what do I know as opposed to what do I want to know.”

— From Tariq Shaukat, former President of Bumble, ProMazo (June 07, 2024)

“The mistake I see a lot of people make is they sort of get obsessed with networking and that sort of thing - how many of my business cards can I hand out and how many mixers can I go to. I don't do that. I don't think I've ever been to a handout your business card mixer in my life and I think I'm probably one of the be...”

— From Tariq Shaukat, former President of Bumble, ProMazo (June 07, 2024)

“I remember a CEO of an auto company telling me a couple years ago that they could build in his opinion they could build a car that is better than Tesla but they could never build software that is better than Teslas and that's becoming a real competitive issue for auto companies it's becoming a real issue for banks it's...”

— From Tech Connects Episode 32: Tariq Shaukat, co-CEO of Sonar, on a future of cleaner code, Dice (November 07, 2023)

“I think the fact the matter with all of these coding tools and with generative AI in general is there's a huge demand for Enterprise ready generative AI tools whether that's for coding for other purposes there's more and more companies I know Google as an example is taking this super seriously I'm sure that open AI is...”

— From Tech Connects Episode 32: Tariq Shaukat, co-CEO of Sonar, on a future of cleaner code, Dice (November 07, 2023)

“I think AI is doing a couple of different things. I think the first part is it's really helping you, it's helping remove some of the friction, it's helping you make the choices that you're already making in the dating app.”

— From AI integration can help 'remove some of the friction' in online dating: Bumble president, Yahoo Finance (May 11, 2023)

“People want to connect, people need to connect. There's a real crisis of loneliness out there and what we should we know that the demand for connection, the demand for dating is really just and not just robust, it's indestructible.”

— From AI integration can help 'remove some of the friction' in online dating: Bumble president, Yahoo Finance (May 11, 2023)