AI agents are shaping the future of developer tooling: Satya Nadella

Microsoft chairman and chief executive Satya Nadella said the future of developer tooling will surpass past breakthroughs like compilers and high-level coding languages. “A new toolchain is being born right now,” Nadella said, referring to the emergence of AI agents.

He reflected on the history of developer tools from Assembly to Lex and YACC. “Back then, compilers helped us move from machine code to code as codegen. Now, we’re seeing agents generating code and the cognition around programming itself is shifting,” he said in a fireside chat…