Nagesh Susarla

Eng at Augment Code, X-Google BigQuery, X-Clover, X-Yahoo YQL and X-BEA WebLogic

[Augment Code @augmentcode]

Fable 5 is now available to Augment Code users. At ~2x the cost of Opus 4.7, Fable 5 is a premium option for long, multi-step engineering work.

Try Fable 5 today in Cosmos, our unified agent platform, to fully experience the power of the most advanced model on the market.

[Nagesh Susarla @nageshs]

I think you devs need AugmentCode's Cosmos, to run your agents.
https://t.co/k28pz28wvV
Cosmos: https://t.co/3LTKGtmZAN

[Augment Code @augmentcode]

"Excited, anxious, invigorated."

That's how one engineering leader described going AI-native. We asked 218 others how they feel.

The results? Remarkably consistent:
"Insecurity, mistrust, hope."
"Optimistic, excited, threatened."

It's the same people, holding many feelings at once.

That's the baseline running through our new report, The State of AI-Native Engineering in 2026, co-authored with @VinayPerneti and @EmmaStarks.

[Augment Code @augmentcode]

https://t.co/F9oAhFsnkN

[Nagesh Susarla @nageshs]

Auggie w/ Opus 4.6 is getting too real and developer like!

`Rather than hunting through all 9 constructor sites, let me create a helper function: ...`

[Sam Pullara @sampullara]

yeah, it works extremely well for me

[Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger]

pssst

gpt5.4 is free to use in Intent right now

[Augment Code @augmentcode]

So what would you say....you do here?

[Augment Code @augmentcode]

Build with Intent.

[swyx @swyx]

this might be the single best timed called shot in the history of AIE. I now think about this talk almost ~daily and have direct line of sight to the nonstop onslaught of new post-IDE form factors for agentic engineering.

@RealGeneKim and @Steve_Yegge really nailed this one, no notes. and they called out one of the predominant shifts in 2026 coding, in Nov 2025. i'm still shocked how -I- myself have changed opinion this dramatically in the last 3 months, because unlike appearances I'm actually not an early adopter of things personally (although I serve early adopters for a living). So by the time -I, a perennially left-of-mid-bell-curve person- have come around to the idea, then you really, really know its here.

well: it's here. @Wattenberger just showed me what she and the Augment team have been cooking and yeah, this is the "ADE" or whatever three letter acronym you wanna call it. Cursor 2.0 was a toe dip. Claude folded it into their chat app. Codex formalized the Conductor patterns. Amazon Kiro went hard on Spec Driven Dev. but Intent... this feels like every good idea i've heard in code agent management rolled into one app that, very generously, does not lock you into only using Augment's inhouse coding agent.

I'm in awe at all these smart people I get to talk to because yeah the future of how software is made is happening right in front of my eyes and people will ask us what it was like during this golden age for the rest of our lives.

[Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger]

My todo list has turned into working environments 😍

I remembered a post I was working on months ago. I love that just opening it gets it resurrected and ready to go, with my progress, agent conversations, and working site in the same state they were in December.

[Guy Gur-Ari @guygr]

I've been using Intent for a while and I love it. It's how I make improvements to Auggie, our CLI agent: have an idea, start a workspace, get to a spec, implement, open PR. Rinse and repeat.

If you want to get more value out of coding agents, Intent it for you.

[Eric Schmidt @ericschmidt]

Another step forward in the agentic revolution

[Sam Pullara @sampullara]

this just might change the way you code forever

[Sam Pullara @sampullara]

intent is by far the best way to work with coding agents. i have been so much more productive shipping by just typing in the box and letting loose a team of agents to spec, build and verify. works with augment's agent, claude code, codex cli and opencode. https://t.co/4gGGEftxC3

[Augment Code @augmentcode]

Intent is now live in public beta.

Start building today → https://t.co/SqXpMm5mi6

[Augment Code @augmentcode]

Intent is our vision for what comes after the IDE.

AI has changed how we build software. But, it’s also made our workflows messier.

One agent is great. Two work. Past that, things fall apart fast. Prompts go stale, context lives everywhere, and you end up spending more time on the tedious work of orchestrating agents.

The bottleneck isn’t writing code anymore. It’s keeping the agents aligned.

That’s why we built Intent.

[Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger]

What comes after the IDE? This is our take.

[Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger]

Intent started with a thought experiment:

📢 Can we sanely orchestrate agents?
 🎁 Can we bundle everything for a task in one place?
🪜 Can we steer from a higher level of abstraction?

turns out solving any of those well means solving all three

[Augment Code @augmentcode]

Ever watched your agent in Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex miss the right files, grep endlessly, or hallucinate changes?

Context Engine gives your agent semantic understanding of your repo, so it finds the right context instantly.

We evaluated agents on a real-world task: take a natural language prompt and ship a complete PR. The dataset: 300 Elasticsearch PRs, each with 3 different prompts, for 900 attempts total. Context Engine MCP improved performance across every dimension.