Agent-First Architecture: The Engineer as System Curator
This is a “thinking out loud” post, not a report from the front lines. I have no evidence any of this is happening at scale, and it is not how my current day job looks. These are just ideas I keep turning over, and I wanted to write them down to see if they hold together. The question I keep coming back to is simple. If AI agents continue to improve at the rate they seem to be, what does engineering work look like five or ten years from now? Not tomorrow. Not next quarter. Further out, where the shape of the job might actually be different. ...