Developers are moving from writing code to supervising agents

Santiago Valdarrama says he has spent two weeks judging agent output without reading it, a workflow software vendors are racing to formalize.

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Coding agents are shifting engineering work from line-by-line implementation toward task definition, verification and supervision, forcing IDE vendors to redesign their core interface.

Illustration of developers using a console dashboard to supervise agents producing code, with multiple screens showing workflows.

Santiago L. Valdarrama (@svpino), a machine-learning engineer and educator, said he has stopped reading AI-generated code and expects software development tools to shift away from the traditional integrated development environment.…

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