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Autocomplete is so 2023. Chatbots were already tedious by 2024. Running agents locally was cool... back in early 2025.

The future of engineering doesn't have a human in the coding loop at all.

When it's within the AI's — rapidly growing — capabilities, you are the bottleneck in shipping code. How many PRs can you review? How many Claude terminals can you monitor at once before you lose your mind?

I'll talk through our experiences building a fully automated maintenance loop at Stile Education, where we're scaling from 600k students in Australia to 6M across the US over the next 24 months. Issues from production are monitored, aggregated, ticketed, fixed, (increasingly) reviewed, and deployed without human involvement. Explain our conceptual models of how to build these systems, and highlight our hard won mistakes and lessons along the way.

Then, I'll fumble awkwardly towards the broader implications for our industry: What does it look like to step back and engineer a system that produces software, rather than being a cog in that machine directly? How do we all begin to work on the business rather than working in it?