AI Dev 26 x SF | Amrita Venkatraman: 3rd Era of Software Development

As AI coding tools evolve from autocomplete to autonomous agents, software development itself is being redefined. This talk by Cursor's Amrita Venkatraman explores the "third era" of AI software development, where fleets of cloud-based agents collaborate as persistent teammates instead of one-off assistants. She traced the shift from keystroke-level Tab completion to synchronous, in-editor agents, and finally to cloud agents that run on dedicated VMs, work in parallel, and return rich artifacts rather than just diffs.