

Bringing Autonomy to Software Engineering
'Gradient Descending' is a series of roundtables on AI: curated deep dives with technical builders. Past roundtables discussions covered RL Environments, Evals, Fine-Tuning, Agent Frameworks, Open Source Models, and Knowledge Graphs with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI and many more.
For this one, we’re joined by Dmytro Yaroshenko (Applied AI Solutions) from Factory to talk about what software engineering looks like as agents start doing more of the actual work.
We’ll look at
Why bother with autonomy?
From coding assistants to autonomous delivery: what actually changes across the SDLC
Where agents still break down today, and what needs to improve. before teams can hand over more of the development process
How this shifts the role of the engineer and what takes time to get right
As always, expect a deep technical discussion with fellow builders.
Agenda:
Arrivals: 08:30–09:00
Roundtable discussion: 09:00–10:00
See past roundtables here:
https://www.akashbajwa.co/t/ai-roundtables
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