Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job

4 hours ago

AI-driven development shifts the engineer's role from writing code to shepherding production and understanding complex systems.
Agent Experience (AX) involves designing seamless human-agent collaboration, focusing on intent and system context rather than just code.
Engineers must now decide what to build and what not to build, ensuring solutions align with business, security, and environmental needs.
Systems must be rethought for agents, moving from APIs to capabilities, request-response to event-driven, and machine-readable to agent-legible.
Human oversight remains critical, with agents operating in sandboxes, actions logged, and humans in the loop for judgment and control.

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