AI Engineering · 5 min read
What AI Coding Agents Change About Software Engineering
Hi, my name is
Madhu Sudhan.
Software engineer in the era of AI.
I'm a software engineer from Nepal 🇳🇵, now based in Japan 🇯🇵, with over nine years of experience building web applications, APIs and backend systems.
AI coding agents now write a growing share of the code. I believe the craft is shifting from typing code to specifying, reviewing and operating it, which makes fundamentals, tests and judgment more valuable, not less.
This site is where I write about that shift, and where I host Tech Weekly, a weekly podcast on software engineering news.
How I think about engineering in the AI era
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Fundamentals first
When an agent writes the code, you still have to know whether it is right. Data structures, complexity and system design are how you judge it.
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Agents write, humans own the review
Generated code is a draft from a fast, confident junior. Review it for correctness, security and fit, and own what ships.
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Specs and tests are the interface
Clear requirements and executable tests are how you hand work to an agent and know when it is actually done.
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Production is the real eval
LLM features need timeouts, retries, queues, cost limits and observability like any other dependency, only more so.
Latest writing
Tech Weekly podcast
A short weekly roundup of software engineering, DevOps and AI news, with the context on why it matters to people who build software.
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Episode #47 · Feb 23, 2026 · 7:56
OpenAI's Agentic AI Push, Codex, Laravel's AI SDK, Fundamentals Over Frameworks
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Episode #46 · Feb 15, 2026 · 7:27
AI Agents Build Compilers, SVG-First Apps, Markdown for Agents, and Why Code Is Now Cheap
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Episode #45 · Jan 25, 2026 · 6:51
Astro Joins Cloudflare, Curl Drops OpenSSL QUIC, AI Can't Replace Developers
Where I've Worked
Backend Software Engineer @ Hivelocity Inc.
August 2024 - Present
- Maintained and enhanced websites for Japanese influencers, including platforms like Fancommerce, Café, Kuji, Reservation.
- Reduced technical debt by upgrading Laravel and PHP versions of industrial company websites in Japan.
- Designed and maintained the backend of a multi-tenant platform, providing RESTful APIs for E-commerce and Fan Commerce websites used by leading Japanese brands and influencer artists.
Skills & Technologies
Languages
- JavaScript (ES6+)
- TypeScript
- PHP
- Node.js
- HTML5
- CSS3
Frontend Dev
- React.js
- Vue.js
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
Backend Dev
- Laravel
- NestJS
- Express
- RESTful APIs
Database
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
Cloud & DevOps
- AWS
- Docker
- Ansible
Tools
- Git
- GitHub
AI & Agents
- AI coding agents
- LLM APIs
- Prompting & specs
- Code review of AI output
06. What's next?
Get in touch
Want to talk engineering, AI tooling or the podcast? My code is on GitHub, and I'm easiest to reach on LinkedIn.