Presentation: The Future of Engineering: Mindsets That Matter When Code Isn’t Enough

Ben Greene: I'm now building Tessi. This is what I'd like to talk about more. "The Future of Engineering: Mindsets that Matter When Code isn't Enough." Could have also named it, what startups can teach us about surviving the coding agent apocalypse. Coding agents are exploding. Usage is going up and up. Not just by software engineers, it's also product managers, graphic designers, marketers, salespeople. It's everybody. Everybody can build software now. That's great. Nothing to worry about. Let's face it. It may not be here quite yet, but automation is coming for us. It's already here for a lot of people. Companies are retasking their best employees to spend all their time training agents how to do their jobs, then laying off the humans. How do software engineers bring value when anyone can program computers? If you feel like you have to prove that you deserve to have your job while simultaneously trying to figure out what your job actually is now, welcome to being in a startup. Startups are the perfect example of having to adapt simply because you cannot survive. In many ways, I think what is happening to software engineers in general now is actually very…