Agent supervision is the new senior engineering skill | BRK244
Coding tools are converging on an 'agent command center' form factor as agent supervision becomes the core skill.
“the level of abstraction is really shifting from managing individual agents”
At Microsoft Build, Swix argues that AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, Cognition) have all independently converged on the same 'agent command center' form factor. The key shift is moving up the abstraction ladder from autocomplete and managing individual agents toward supervising fleets of agents, which he frames as the new senior engineering skill.