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The Typing Got Cheap. The Judgment Didn't: An Infrastructure Engineer's Year with AI Agents

Sachin Malhotra

Over the past year, AI coding agents went from autocomplete to writing a growing share of the code on my team's infrastructure — and my job changed more than I expected. This talk covers what that actually looks like day to day: root-causing a production incident from my phone, the handful of habits that make agents genuinely useful (write the investigation down once, let a fresh agent try to break your plan, keep a journal the agents read), shipping a production service in a language I don't write, and what on-call feels like when the status updates write themselves. The bar for what ships hasn't moved; where the time and the judgment go has. No hype, no doom — just what changed, what broke along the way, and what I'd tell anyone whose dev loop is about to get a lot faster.