April 2, 2026via InfoQ AI/ML
Presentation: Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit
Why it matters
A respected cloud architecture expert outlines how software development is fundamentally shifting from cloud-first to AI-agent orchestration, providing a roadmap for engineering leaders to adapt their development platforms.
Key signals
- Transition from cloud-native to AI-native development
- Director-level approach to managing agent swarms
- Tools: Cursor and Claude Flow
- Applications: BDD, MCP servers, language porting
The hook
Cloud-native is dead. Adrian Cockcroft says the future is AI-native development with swarms of autonomous coding agents.
Adrian Cockcroft explains the transition from cloud-native to AI-native development. He shares his "director-level" approach to managing swarms of autonomous agents using tools like Cursor and Claude Flow. Discussing real-world experiments in BDD, MCP servers, and language porting, he discusses why the future of engineering lies in building platforms that orchestrate AI-driven development.
By Adrian Cockcroft
Relevance score:75/100