DeepLearning.AI founder Andrew Ng publishes a spec-first coding-agent workflow

DeepLearning.AI's founder recommends testing, architectural review and calibrated autonomy instead of leaving coding agents unattended.

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Why it matters

Coding agents shift scarce engineering skill toward specifications, architecture and review. Ng gives teams a practical framework for deciding how much autonomy to grant and where developers must verify the result.

A software engineer intently reviews complex code on a large monitor, with a digital pen poised for interaction, reflecting human oversight in automated development.

Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning.AI, is urging developers to treat coding agents as fast collaborators whose work requires repeated verification, rather than unattended systems that can absorb a specification and safely return production software.…

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