Nadella: Future IDEs will act as heads-up displays to steer agent swarms
Satya Nadella · Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom · Nov 18, 2025 · at 16:21
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses how developer environments and enterprise interfaces will evolve to coordinate and supervise autonomous AI agents.
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“So the IDE, I think, in fact, one of the most exciting things is new classes of highly refined IDEs that have even a sort of a telemetry loop with the intelligence layer, but also they kind of act more like heads up displays, right? I have thousands of agents going off. How am I going to make sense of the micro steering of thousands of agents? Is what ID's slash inboxes and messaging tools will be, right?”
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