Adrian Cockcroft: Directing A Swarm Of Agents For Fun And Profit (45:58)
InfoQ, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Adrian Cockcroft explains the transition from cloud-native to AI-native development. He shares his "director-level" approach to managing swarms of autonomous agents using tools like Cursor and Claude Flow.
Discussing real-world experiments in BDD, MCP servers, and language porting, he discusses why the future of engineering lies in building platforms that orchestrate AI-driven development.
Bio
Adrian Cockcroft is a technologist and strategist with broad experience from the bits to the boardroom. He's best known as the cloud architect for Netflix during their trailblazing migration to AWS and was a very early practitioner and advocate of DevOps, microservices, and chaos engineering, helping bring these concepts to the wider audience they have today.