Designing Software for an Agent-First World
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Your Repository Is Now Your Most Important Interface
The role of the software engineer is evolving rapidly, not because AI can generate code, but because software development itself is becoming a human-agent collaborative system.
In recent years, we moved from AI assisting with snippets, to generating entire functions, to proposing pull requests, and now to agents that navigate repositories, reason about architecture, and execute multi-step development tasks autonomously.