Forbes December 10, 2025
Boards expect organizations to adopt AI at a breakneck pace, but firms struggle to deliver real value from AI in production environments. At AWS Re: Invent, Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Agentic AI at AWS, addressed a fundamental question: how do you make automation and software development easier and more scalable with AI, and specifically AI agents? If you can do this, AI becomes a valuable tool, not just shiny technology.
During his day two keynote, Sivasubramanian asked the audience to close their eyes and remember the first program they ever built. He used this imagery to set up the narrative of a new inflection point in software development. He shared how agentic AI will fundamentally transform who can...







