Humans on the loop, not in it: Taking agentic engineering end to end

Providing tools for developers to write code is not enough. In this talk, Kief Morris explains how agents can support the end-to-end software delivery process into production and keep improving it.

Key points:
• Teams should focus on defining outcomes and prioritizing improvements, not managing every artifact; humans should stay on the loop, not in it.
• Agents should do the heavy lifting: managing specifications, building and testing, assessing outputs at each stage, and implementing the improvements the team sets.
• Platform engineers need to enable the capabilities that make end-to-end agentic workflows reliable, especially for release and operations.
• As feedback loops tighten across the full cycle, teams progressively trust agents with more.