From Writing Code to Designing Systems: How the Developer Role is Changing
summary
Claim: developers shift from typing code to designing systems and orchestrating agents using GitHub Copilot, Copilot CLI, Copilot Chat, skills, custom agents and agents.md guardrail. Demo shows a small finance tracker built by Copilot agents that run on MCP servers, spawn jobs and produce delegate -> draft PRs in a sandboxed repo for human review. Workflow uses multiple terminals (six shown), Playwright and PR sandboxes, and promises up to a claimed 20x leverage while keeping architectural consistency via explicit constraints.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:18Start development in CLI
- 7:09Guardrails for AI agents
- 13:06Skills vs custom agents
- 16:16Scaling with delegation
- 22:32Summary
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