Self Coding Agents — Colin Flaherty, Augment Code
This talk explores the development and capabilities of AI coding agents, focusing on how these agents can contribute to their own creation and improvement. The core thesis is that AI agents are rapidly evolving and will significantly change software engineering, with a notable statistic indicating that over 90% of a 20,000-line codebase for an agent was written by the agent itself under human supervision. The presentation highlights the practical applications, lessons learned, and future implications of this technology.
17 min