npm co-founder Laurie Voss: coding agents made code free, bottleneck shifts to ops and security
AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-10-25
Laurie Voss (npm co-founder, Arize AI devrel) argues coding agents made writing code nearly free, so the bottleneck keeps moving: first code review, then operations and security. His data: 8x more code but only 30% faster shipping.
- What agents won't take over: figuring out what people actually need and defining what "good" means
- He calls the remaining job the "product engineer"
- Examines collapsing junior developer hiring data and gives actionable advice for engineering leaders
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