From PHP to team lead of agents: rethinking judgment, review, and data with Google's Andi Gutmans (Part 1)

Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google and co-creator of PHP, discusses how software development is evolving with AI agents. He highlights the shift in roles where developers become 'team leads of agents' and emphasizes data readiness as a key challenge for agent reasoning. Gutmans also explains changes in Google's interview process to focus on guiding agents and introduces concepts like human-agent collaboration and Google's borderless lakehouse for data management.