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What Nicole Forsgren thinks about AI agents

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Researcher of software delivery performance, co-author of "Accelerate" and of the DORA, SPACE and DevEx frameworks, and author of "Frictionless".

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  1. Our readingDelivery will keep being slow until companies apply AI to the human, business-process half of it, not just to coding.

    Their wordsa lot of companies haven't started until now thinking about how we could apply AI to the very human, very business process part of it. And so, that will keep slowing us down until we find a way to to address it, right?

    ↗Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 6th of 18 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingA handful of AI agents is not a handful of colleagues, because agents agree with you constantly and colleagues tell you where you are wrong.

    Their wordsWe may have a handful of genies, but that's different from having a handful of friends, right? In part because the energy's different, the conversations are different. Also, they just agree with us constantly.

    ↗Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 10th of 18 in this recording

    energy

    Interesting

  5. Our readingA future where agents run and improve an organisation is impossible unless humans can first see and understand the system themselves.

    Their wordsFor that to be true, agents need to be able to see and understand the system. And agents need to be able to improve the things that need fixed. For that to be true, humans need to be able to see and understand the system and then take action to fix it. Uh and for that to be true, we got to see the system.

    ↗Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 17th of 18 in this recording

    Interesting