Andrew Ng: Software Engineering Fundamentals Remain Key for Guiding AI Agents
DeepLearningAI · x · 2026-08-29
Andrew Ng warns that developers lacking software engineering grounding struggle to evaluate trade-offs like latency and compute costs when deploying AI coding agents. He argues that understanding the full stack—from data management to UI design—is essential for guiding agents to make the structural decisions needed for robust applications.
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