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What Do Humans Do Now? Rethinking Software Engineering in the Age of AI Agents
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Summary In this episode, I spoke with Jonathan Ellis about how AI agents are changing the economics of software development and forcing teams to rethink where human time is best spent. We explored his argument that, now that code generation is dramatically faster, traditional human-centered code review is becoming a poor use of attention. Instead, Jonathan makes the case for shifting review earlier in the lifecycle toward specifications, RFCs, and architecture decisions, while investing more heavily in automated validation, static analysis, fuzzing, and other quality gates that can help verify whether software does what it is supposed to do regardless of how the code was written. Jonathan…