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The article discusses how future productivity in software engineering will come from AI agents that autonomously handle tasks like code reviews and testing, shifting developers' roles to supervision.

The next productivity leap in software engineering won’t come from engineers manually prompting more coding agents. It comes when the work starts itself. PR opens → agent reviews it Datadog alert fires → agent investigates Coverage drops → agent adds tests Developers shift from initiating every task to supervising always-on agent workflows. @rbren_dev joined @ProductFaculty to show how we’re building toward that at OpenHands. Watch the episode:
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The next productivity leap in software engineering won’t come from engineers manually prompting more coding agents.

It comes when the work starts itself.

PR opens → agent reviews it Datadog alert fires → agent investigates Coverage drops → agent adds tests

Developers shift from initiating every task to supervising always-on agent workflows.

@rbren_dev joined @ProductFaculty to show how we’re building toward that at OpenHands. Watch the episode:

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