Andrew Ng: Solid Software Engineering Foundations Still Matter in the Age of AI Coding Agents

Andrew Ng argues that developers still need solid software engineering fundamentals even when coding agents write all the code, as lacking such foundations leads agents to make poor trade-offs in latency, cost, and reliability.

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