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  AI coding agents are changing what it feels like to be a software engineer.
  For a lot of us, that's challenging our sense of craftsmanship. If agents are
  writing the code, do we lose the joy of building? I don't think so. The
  building moves up a layer. In this talk, I'll share how I found that familiar
  engineering flow state again. Not by writing every line myself, but by
  designing agentic systems that still require the engineering principles we
  value: systems thinking, decomposition, separation of concerns, state
  management, etc. The tools are different now, but the engineering discipline
  is still there. We'll walk through how to apply the engineering muscles you
  already have to a new set of building blocks. If you've been wondering where
  your value goes in an AI native world, this talk will help you see that it
  hasn't disappeared. It's now at the system level. Speakers: - Angie Jones
  (Agentic AI Foundation): Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the
  Agentic AI Foundation where she guides how agentic systems are designed,
  implemented, and adopted across the global developer ecosystem. X/Twitter:
  https://twitter.com/techgirl1908 LinkedIn:
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/angiejones/ GitHub: https://github.com/angiejones
  --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and
  resources on this talk's official AIE page:
  https://ai.engineer/talks/ZD9-4fW2HhM-build-systems-not-code Join our upcoming
  AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi
  Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers
  - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi
  Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney ---
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# Build Systems, Not Code - Angie Jones, Agentic AI Foundation

AI coding agents are changing what it feels like to be a software engineer. For a lot of us, that's challenging our sense of craftsmanship. If agents are writing the code, do we lose the joy of building? I don't think so. The building moves up a layer. In this talk, I'll share how I found that familiar engineering flow state again. Not by writing every line myself, but by designing agentic systems that still require the engineering principles we value: systems thinking, decomposition, separation of concerns, state management, etc. The tools are different now, but the engineering discipline is still there. We'll walk through how to apply the engineering muscles you already have to a new set of building blocks. If you've been wondering where your value goes in an AI native world, this talk will help you see that it hasn't disappeared. It's now at the system level. Speakers: - Angie Jones (Agentic AI Foundation): Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation where she guides how agentic systems are designed, implemented, and adopted across the global developer ecosystem. X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/techgirl1908 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angiejones/ GitHub: https://github.com/angiejones --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/ZD9-4fW2HhM-build-systems-not-code Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney ---

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