Aug 14, 2026 · 54 min · 10 segments
Zora Wang is a CS PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University. Zora’s work lies at the intersection of coding agents and human-ai collaboration. In this episode we explore how agents work, how humans…
Zora WangGuest
Yijia ShaoHost
If you look at the human employment or like where the economic value concentrates, the software engineer only captures around like less than 5% of human employment.
We really know what this AI can do, but we also don't really know what other people want this AI to do.
example, if we have a perfect depiction of the human agent profile and then like aggregating both together, maybe we can achieve bigger things.
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If you look at the human employment or like where the economic value concentrates, the software engineer only captures around like less than 5% of human employment.
We really know what this AI can do, but we also don't really know what other people want this AI to do.
example, if we have a perfect depiction of the human agent profile and then like aggregating both together, maybe we can achieve bigger things.