AGENT UX: BUILDING DEVELOPER TOOLS FOR HUMANS AND THEIR CODING AGENTS

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Modern developer tools must provide shared interfaces that humans, coding assistants, and APIs can operate simultaneously to avoid turning users into reverse centaurs. To address this, the Explosion team built Ellf, an agentic NLP development platform that generates matching UIs and CLIs from Python functions and type hints. Coding assistants have made self-hosted cluster architectures practical for more teams by helping with setup and debugging.