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Presentation: Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit

Cloud-native is dead. Adrian Cockcroft says the future is AI-native development with swarms of autonomous coding agents.

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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.

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  1. Transition from cloud-native to AI-native development

  2. Director-level approach to managing agent swarms

  3. Tools: Cursor and Claude Flow

  4. Applications: BDD, MCP servers, language porting

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Publisher excerpt: 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…
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