Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Engineers must shift from coding to designing AI agent experiences
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Jennifer Riggins
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Netlify CTO Dana Lawson argues that the role of engineers is shifting from writing code to designing agent experiences (AX), as AI-powered agentic tools abstract away traditional programming. Speaking at AI Native DevCon in London, she explained that conversational intent is becoming the new programming language, enabling a broader range of people to build software. Lawson predicts a billion new applications will be created by 2029, driven by this paradigm shift where engineers focus on orchestrating AI agents rather than writing low-level code.
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Hacker NewsNetlify CTO Dana Lawson: Engineers must shift from coding to designing AI agent experiencesthenewstack.ioKey quotes
· 3 pulledI've been doing this since the '90s — decades of building guardrails to prevent humans from breaking production. We're now removing those guardrails and saying: Hey, come play with us, come create, go build the next experiences of the world.
Agentic AI has established the next layer of abstraction, where intent — expressed in conversational language — becomes the next programming language that exponentially more people can create with.
There will be a billion new applications written by 2029
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