Software Engineering Agents
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes
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Britt Morin: Software engineer headcount will shrink as AI agents multiply output
“I think more people overall will be building software, but the number of actual software engineers will need to go down because one great engineer can do the work of many engineers and their job will likely be to like manage and oversee some of these software …”
Taylor: AI Agents Are Making Software Development Inexpensive
“Software engineering agents are bringing down the cost of developing software. It's not going to go to zero, but it's you know, it's going from extremely expensive to relatively inexpensive, and that's a huge change.”
Masad: Software engineering AI agents train on standard Linux environments
“The way, ah, software engineering agents are trained today is they're trained on standard Linux environment. They need to be able to use the shell, they need to be able to write to files, read files, ah, but they also need to be able to install packages, eithe…”
Masad: Software engineering and SDR AI agent markets are heavily oversaturated
“I think certainly software is like really tricky, software engineering agents. There's like, there's a lot of people that want to do that. And if you're coming in late, you want to have a truly novel idea to be able to like compete there. But, you know, there'…”