Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: 'Writing Code Is No Longer the Job' — Agent Experience (AX) Is

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In a New Stack interview trending on HN (42 points / 51 comments), Lawson argues the engineer's role shifts from authoring code to 'agent experience' — a fusion of DX and UX where agents generate code, write tests, detect faults, propose fixes, and open PRs in a continuous human-agent loop running at machine speed. She frames the human contribution as 'judgment, taste, direction' and the engineer as 'the shepherd of production,' with deciding what not to build becoming the core skill. This directly echoes the builder thesis that orchestration and taste, not typing code, are now the bottleneck.