When agents write the code, what do the engineers actually do?

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Jeremy Eder, Distinguished Red Hat Engineer, joined Digital Excellence Connect 2026 ( AE’s annual flagship client and partner event) to tackle one of the most pressing questions in software today: what happens to engineering teams when AI handles the work?

The bottleneck in software development has shifted. Coding is no longer the constraint. Judgment is. And most engineering teams have not yet caught up with what that means for how they work.

Jeremy speaks from direct experience. His own team hit a point where AI-generated output was so high that they could not merge anything. The problem was not velocity. It was the absence of the right feedback loops and governance structures to handle it.

His view on what comes next is clear: "This is a very human shift. Caring for teams, understanding that we need to move people around and change what they do. That is a delicate process." At the same time, leaders cannot afford to move cautiously. These systems are too powerful for that.

Watch the full interview to hear Jeremy on what engineering leadership actually looks like in the agentic era and why humility might be the most important skill of all.