Are Agents About to Replace Software Engineering? - Lauren Tan and Roshan Sadanani

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    Lauren Tan and Roshan Sadanani introduce GrokBot as a persistent agent workspace where bots have their own computers, can use signed-in tools, and communicate through a simple messaging interface. A live demonstration shows agents posting to LinkedIn, assembling presentation material, triaging bugs, and dispatching cloud coding agents.

    Lauren Tan explains that her Benny experiment grew from a desire to turn incoming bug reports into agent-written fixes. She describes an engineer's role shifting toward managing digital colleagues, improving the codebase, encoding style rules as hard constraints, reviewing pull requests, and retaining responsibility for quality.

    Roshan Sadanani argues that agent fleets can shorten the path from an idea to a working product, while people still supply judgment and taste. Lauren Tan adds that lower-cost capable models can make more agent tasks practical for teams with limited budgets.

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