The Future Of Software Engineering with Anthropic
A summary of a roundtable on the future of software engineering, featuring leaders from Stripe, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and others. Key insights: closed-loop development creates compounding gains; test-first is the new default; human code review is fading; comments are written for AI readability; long-horizon tasks remain unsolved; developer tooling is being displaced first; hiring values experimentation over raw skill; human-authored context files help, agent-authored ones can hurt. Candid trade-offs and real-world practices are shared.