Agents, codebases, and teams — Aditya Khandelwal, Amazon AGI Lab

Aditya Khandelwal argues that scaling AI agent adoption within engineering teams is a leadership challenge, not an individual contributor problem. He highlights common pitfalls like agent "babysitting" and "slop," and provides a playbook emphasizing progressive disclosure, high-value automation, robust feedback loops, and a critical mindset shift to successfully integrate agents into team workflows.