Agentic Coding — what it is, how it works, and why it represents a fundamental shift
Dalton Flanagan is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic working on Claude Code, an agentic coding tool built on large language models. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 2017 with a BS in Computer Science, studying under Arnab in his research lab and helping grow the OHI/O hackathon program. He spent eight years at Meta, shipping products that reached billions of users across Events, AR glasses (Project Orion), and Llama. He’s now focused on bridging product and research at Anthropic, bringing his experience building at massive scale to the frontier of AI-powered development tools.
This Thursday, he’ll discuss agentic coding — what it is, how it works, and why it represents a fundamental shift in how software gets built. He’ll reflect on how the development process has changed since his time as a student, from writing every line by hand to collaborating with AI agents that can reason about code, execute tasks, and iterate autonomously. Drawing on his experience shipping products at Meta-scale and now building the tools themselves at Anthropic, he’ll share practical insights on where agentic coding is heading next and how students can position themselves to thrive in this new era of software development.
Come see him live this at Pomerene 160 on March 5th starting at 3:55 PM to hear about his insights and the inside scoop of where the AI field is heading towards.
When: Thursday March 05, 3:55pm — 5:15pm
Where: Pomerene 160
No RSVP required
