Panel Watch Party: Human in the Loop

Session: Wed Nov 4 · Panel Watch Party: Human in the Loop

Format. We watch the livestream of Human in the Loop: Expectations in the Agentic AI Era together in Behrakis 030. The panel runs 10:30–11:30 in Snell 160. Integration Session I moved to Mon Nov 2 to make room for it.

Before class: open the virtual link and test audio on the room system by 10:20. Print the worksheet, one per student. If the stream fails, the fallback is TODO.

Transition: Reminders, then the stream starts at 10:30.

Reminders

• DUE today: First Implementation Ticket merged
• DUE Thu Nov 5: Checkpoint 2 survey
• COMING: Checkpoint 3 survey, releases Thu Nov 5, due Thu Dec 3

Thirty seconds at most. The stream starts on time.

Transition: Here's what we're watching.

CS 4535: Software Design & Delivery

Panel Watch Party: Human in the Loop

©2026 Jonathan Bell, CC-BY-SA

Why this panel. This semester you shipped code that an agent drafted first, and you reviewed code that other people's agents drafted. The panel asks what a new graduate still has to be able to do when an agent writes the first draft, and it asks from the hiring side.

Transition: The panel.

Human in the Loop: Expectations in the Agentic AI Era

10:30–11:30 · Snell Library 160, streamed here

• Javed (Jay) Aslam: Professor, Khoury College, and Northeastern's inaugural Chief of Artificial Intelligence
• Drew Glaser: Manager, Engineering Development Group, MathWorks
• Dan Mantoni: Director of Simulation and Modeling, Analog Devices
• Alexander M. Wyglinski: Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of ECE, WPI; Past President, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

Conversational, no presentations. Audience questions at the end.

The panel's announced questions:

1. Which professional fundamentals have become more important
2. Where new graduates fall short when an AI system produces the first draft
3. What curricula should stop doing to make room for other competencies
4. What a student starting a degree today should do differently

Leave this slide up until the stream starts.

Transition: The worksheet.

While You Watch

The worksheet has a row for each of the panel's four questions, and a fifth for where the panel disagrees.

• Middle column: a claim a panelist makes, with their name
• Right column: test it against your semester: your first ticket, a review, Game Day 1, or R11 and R12
• At the bottom: one question you'd ask the panel

Hand it in before you leave.

Hand the worksheets out during reminders so nobody is reading the sheet when the stream starts.

The right column is the part that matters. A sheet that copies down what panelists said with nothing on the right has missed the task. Row 5 is the hardest one. A student who finds a disagreement between panelists, or a claim that R11 or R12 contradicts, was listening closely.

The panel ends at 11:30, which leaves five minutes to collect worksheets before class ends at 11:35. If the Q&A has a virtual channel, students can send the question from the bottom box during the Q&A.

Transition: Stream starts.

Up Next

Thu Nov 5 · Game Day 2: Pawtograder Is Slow, in your own workspace, in the same format as Game Day 1.

Before then:

• Checkpoint 2 survey, due Thu Nov 5
• Checkpoint 3 survey, releases Thu Nov 5, due Thu Dec 3

Put this up as the stream ends, while worksheets come in.