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From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team — Clare Liguori, AWS

From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team — Clare Liguori, AWS

Clare Liguori, a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS, reveals how Amazon teams are achieving 4.5x to 10x productivity gains through 'frontier development' with AI coding assistants like Kuro. She emphasizes that success isn't about the tools, but about fundamentally changing how engineers work, outlining five core habits: investing in agent context, embracing an initial slowdown for long-term speedup, feeding agents comprehensive instructions instead of micromanaging, making design intent explicit before coding, and shifting left with local, deterministic testing. Liguori also addresses new challenges like burnout and decision-making becoming the primary bottleneck in highly accelerated development cycles.

How to build an AI-Native Health Company — Dan Feng, Maven Clinic

How to build an AI-Native Health Company — Dan Feng, Maven Clinic

Dan Feng outlines Maven Clinic's transformation into an AI-native company, driven by the realization that "building is cheap and arguing is expensive" in the AI era. This shift has reshaped planning to short, iterative sprints, revolutionized software development with AI coding tools, forced adaptive changes in code review processes, and necessitated a nuanced, multi-layered approach to ensuring reliability in generative AI systems.

2026: The Year The IDE Died — Steve Yegge & Gene Kim, Authors, Vibe Coding

2026: The Year The IDE Died — Steve Yegge & Gene Kim, Authors, Vibe Coding

Steve Yegge and Gene Kim discuss the current limitations of AI coding assistants, predicting a shift from simple code completion "power tools" to sophisticated, agent-based "CNC machines" that will automate the entire software development lifecycle. They explore the cultural resistance from senior engineers, the transformative impact on team structures, and the emergence of "Vibe Coding" as a new paradigm that will reshape technology organizations.