Dev Tools · 60d ago
Agent-first tools reshape developer workflows, says Augment designer
Amelia Wattenberger, designer at Augment Code, argues that AI agents are transforming software development by taking over keyboard tasks. She highlights a shift from autocomplete to chat to CLI and back to UI, with Intent treating workspaces as core primitives. The tradeoff: prototyping gets easier, but finishing projects becomes harder.
Meridian48 take
The claim that the last 30% of projects will become the hardest part is worth watching, but agent tooling is still early and may not yet deliver on that promise.
ai-agentsdeveloper-tools