AI Writes the Code. So What's Left for Engineers? - Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Laurie Voss, head of developer relations at Arize AI and co-founder of npm, argues that coding agents have made writing code nearly free, so the bottleneck keeps moving first to code review, then to operations and security. What agents can't take over is discovering what people actually need and defining what 'good' means. He introduces the product engineer as the role that remains, examines the collapse in junior engineering hiring, and offers practical advice for engineering leaders.