Canva CTO reveals AI agents write code overnight while engineers sleep
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February 17, 2026
Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys revealed that engineering teams draft instructions for AI agents to execute code-writing tasks overnight while engineers sleep. Humphreys stated that senior engineers’ jobs have become “largely review”—checking AI output and steering agents rather than writing code themselves. Engineers still spend significant time defining problems and translating vague, conflicting requirements into production-ready […]
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