Engineers can automate ~95% of repetitive work with cloud agents
generativist · x · 2026-08-20
Retweeted opinion: With a few prompts and the right cloud agent harness, engineers can automate about 95% of the annoying repetitive work they used to do, allowing them to focus on creative work instead. We are in a golden age of software engineering, though it is not yet evenly distributed.
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