Addy on Responsibility in the Agent Era
addyosmani · x · 2026-07-15
Addy Osmani's closing keynote from the AI Engineer World’s Fair is now on YouTube. He discusses how developers must redefine responsibility boundaries in an era of "engineers + agents + software factories." Key insights include: - **仍要有人负责**: Even as agents take over tasks, humans must remain accountable for the product's purpose, safety, and error handling. - **警惕认知负债**: Over-reliance on agents can lead to cognitive debt and cognitive surrender; judgment doesn't scale automatically just because tasks are parallelized. - **掌握 outer loop**: While agents handle the inner loop (execution and iteration), humans must control higher-level decisions—what to do and what to ultimately ship.
Related event: Addy Osmani: Engineers Must Be Accountable for Agent Systems(3 posts)→
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