How are natural language interfaces changing software engineering?

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Shawn Wen

CTO and Co-Founder · PolyAI

Enabling multi-task workflow

Shawn Wen says agents like voice agents let him do email triage, video editing and coding at once, changing his workflow to a breadth-first search one because those domains are specified well enough for agent autonomy.

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Thariq Shihipar

Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic

Turning workflows into loops

Thariq Shihipar says the change is turning every part of the software development lifecycle into a routine or loop, which he thinks is where things are headed.

Patrick Debois

DevRel · Tessl

Engineers become orchestrators

Patrick Debois says the developer eventually becomes more of a conductor and orchestrator of agents, an evolution he considers fair.

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Anders Hejlsberg

Technical Fellow · Microsoft

More reviewing, less typing

Anders Hejlsberg says the craft is changing from typing lines of code to having agents type them while engineers review the agents' work, so they do more reviewing and less typing.

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🦄 Peter Steinberger

Founder · Amantus Machina

Design pipelines for agents

Peter Steinberger says the work is now designing a pipeline from what you want to the outcome, part of software engineering—engineering how his agents can do their best job—because better pipelines produce better outcomes.