Nobody Agrees About Agentic Development

James Cowling sits down with Jean-Denis Greze, David Cramer, and Theo Browne to talk about how agents are changing the way software gets built. They cover whether teams are actually more productive, whether anyone still needs to review code, what happens to junior engineers, and what counts as a moat when anyone can ship an app in a weekend. Spoiler alert: they don't all agree. Recorded at Abstract, Convex's first conference, at SFJAZZ in San Francisco. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDjzGVfAPmpw Moderator James Cowling, Co-founder & CTO, Convex Panelists Jean-Denis Greze, Co-founder & CEO, Town David Cramer, Co-founder & CPO, Sentry Theo Browne, Founder, T3 Chat and T3 Stack Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:20 Meet the panel 2:02 Are agents actually making teams more productive? 8:01 Do engineers still need to review code? 13:50 Architecture and engineering judgment 17:32 What happens to junior engineers? 25:38 Ownership, incidents, and "slop" PRs 27:31 Knowing when to start over 30:32 What is a moat when software gets cheap? 38:59 Does AI make open source more risky? 44:36 Advice for young engineers 48:23 Engineering isn't writing code