In 2010, Adrian Cockcroft stood on the QCon stage and told the audience that Netflix was running its entire business on a public cloud. Most people in the room thought he was crazy.
Fifteen years later, Cockcroft was back at QCon, this time explaining how he manages swarms of autonomous AI agents that produce several days’ worth of code in fifteen minutes [1]. The audience reaction was different. Nobody called him crazy. They were taking notes.