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Cooper: Natural language agents will dominate software development within ten years
“That will be kind of the dominant species over the next like 10 years is, is we've moved from assembly to C to C++ to JavaScript to now like words.”
Cooper: The traditional push-pull-rebuild deployment loop will disappear
“Like push, pull, whatever kind of like loop, I just fundamentally believe it's going to go away, right? Like it's, we're going to get to a point where you make a small change in production that changes version across your entire kind of infrastructure. You're …”
Cooper: Agentic workloads will destroy traditional static AWS instances
“I think the era of, like, I have an AWS instance, and I'm going to, you know, get four vCPU and 16 gigs of RAM, It's going to get, like, completely destroyed, right? Because it's like, if you do that for agents or anything else like that, you now need a thousa…”
Cooper: A new version control system outside Git will ultimately emerge
“And I do think that something ultimately outside Git will emerge in terms of how we're going to go into version a lot of these things over time.”
Cooper: Companies will reserve massive token budgets for elite AI developers
“I think what you're going to end up with is actually, you're going to almost, like, end up with the, like, F-one driver concept. Which is if you have a, if you have somebody who's like really, really adept at these things it makes sense to go and put them into…”