I wonder at what point they'll have to answer the inevitable question: "why does the agent even need me anymore"?
^ this is the thought I had 10 times reading through their announcement page.
what do you think they are working towards? They do want to replace software engineers with these agents.
Their explicit goal is to create "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." They are just building towards that. It's not a secret.