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Demonstration from Patrick Chanezon, VP of Developer Relations at Microsoft. This was originally recorded at DevX Summit, March 2026.
AI coding agents have made significant progress in the last 6 months, completely transforming the role of developers: this talk covers some aspects of this transformation. Learning to manage teams of agents, working at a higher level of abstraction, the impact of AI on early in career developers and how to hire and train the next generation of developers, developing different hygiene and work habits to survive the AI fatigue that occurs when working with machines that go faster than human colleagues, never get tired, and never sleep.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:40 Using Github CoPilot CLI to make presentations
03:23 Never create a PPT manually again
04:45 Working with images
05:25 Sub agents
11:00 Using WorkIQ
23:36 Developers become managers of agents
25:05 AI Coding agents are changing the developer role
26:20 The Frontier Firm and Microsoft
28:09 Patrick’s book recommendation
29:15 Software G forces
29:56 What kind of new skills do you need?
33:32 Redefining the software engineering profession
36:00 AI fatigue
37:45 Why Patrick is optimistic about the role of developers
41:00 The imperfections to be aware of
Links:
🚀GitHub repo: https://aka.ms/EMEADevSummitChanezon
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