Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

New York Times reporter Clive Thompson worked on a story where he interviewed more than 70 coders about how AI was changing the profession. A few of us at Amazon also chatted with him.

I brought a slightly different angle, around how AI is changing ops, which is tightly connected to software engineering. Clive liked seeing my physical pager that I had on my desk, and apparently I gave off a "vibe", because he described me hilariously as, "...a trim man of 42 with a gray beard and jittery intensity."

It was super fun showing Clive how I was using AI for ops, so I can imagine I was bouncing off the walls a bit showing everything that I'm so excited and passionate about.

One funny thing is that this interview was during the preview for AWS DevOps Agent, which solved the operational issue I was demoing in 15 minutes. Now that we're GA and added things like learned skills, DevOps Agent solves that same issue in 4 minutes.