My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit

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I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about agentic engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. The video is available on YouTube. Here are my highlights from the conversation. Stages of AI adoption We started by talking about the different phases a software developer goes through in adopting AI coding tools. I feel like there are different stages of AI adoption as a programmer. You start off with you've got ChatGPT and you ask it questions and occasionally it helps you out.