The Future of Software Engineering for Tech Leaders | Feat. Augment Code Co-Founder Guy Gur-Ari & Docker EVP of Engineering and Product Tushar Jain
We were thrilled to host an in-person event at our office in San Francisco with Docker CTO Tushar Jain and Augment Code Co-funder Guy Gur-Ari. Moderated by Product Advisor Michael Sippey, we dove into the big topics facing technology leaders today: What’s the short term outlook for software engineers? How do we think about adoption of AI agents in software development across the enterprise? And why wouldn’t a team be all in on AI right now?
If you’d been there, here’s what you’d still be thinking about:
Things are moving so fast that driving any tops down edict about tools may backfire. Tushar says at Docker, last year the primary tool being used was Copilot, but earlier in 2025, Cursor became the tool of choice. And then in the last two weeks he’s seen a switch to Claude Code from his team. The advances are happening so quickly that it doesn’t make sense to pick one tool and sign a large contract for Docker — they are staying nimble and adapting to changes in the industry
Building with AI agents requires changing how engineers think about their craft in significant ways. Guy notes that developers like “looking at code, thinking about code and being in the code.” Asking developers to build from a prompt box is a totally different skill set — how to structure a prompt, break down what you want to build, and give enough context. The skill of being a great engineer needs to adapt from defaulting to being in the code to being an expert on how to prompt — this is a significant change in the craft and for established senior engineers, will take time.
3. Change is rapid, but we’re still at the beginning. One of our event attendees asked how we should think about AI agents — are they more like employees? One-off task completors? Guy says that right now they’re like eager interns. The new agents will do whatever you prompt them to do — and do it quickly. But there still need to be code review, feedback, etc.
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