Agents, codebases, and teams — Aditya Khandelwal, Amazon AGI Lab
Aditya Khandelwal from Amazon AGI Lab shares insights on introducing AI agents into an engineering team.
The core issue isn't agent technology but adoption strategy: when only some engineers use agents while others don't, chaos ensues—those without agents fall behind, and people blame the agents for problems. Khandelwal's solution was to restructure the entire codebase workflow around a special function called "ship it" that automates everything from finished code to PR-ready status. Around this framework, the team integrated agents for code review and other tasks. It wasn't perfect—agents created thousands of open issues—but it helped engineers develop actual trust in the tools.
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