Addy Osmani on Engineering Roles and AI Agents
addyosmani · x · 2026-08-20
Addy Osmani chatted with Gergely Orosz about the unbundling of engineering roles, the shift from DevTools to AI agents, and cognitive debt. Additionally, Fly.io launched 'Sprites,' computers designed for agents, featuring hardware-isolated Linux VMs with persistent disks, automatic checkpointing, and zero-cost idle time, addressing persistence and isolation in agent development.
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