Compound Engineering: automation makes work less synchronous, not less human
every · x · 2026-11-06
At Every's Thesis 2027 event, Trevin Chow described Compound Engineering: "automation doesn't make it less human, just less synchronous... you're not pressing enter all the time — maybe a week ago." His sandwich framing: humans set direction, agents do the work, humans validate the output — shifting the human role from executor to delegator-verifier.
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