Thoughts

Your best engineer is mass-producing code. Your team is shipping at the same speed as last year. The math doesn't add up until you look at the way individuals and teams use AI.

The desire to let agents iterate autonomously, working through tasks while you focus elsewhere. The appeal is real: maximum leverage, continuous progress, code shipping while you sleep.

The middle of software work used to absorb most of the time, attention, and craft. Now agents can produce working code from goals and context. The middle is getting thinner. What matters is forming the right intent and verifying the outcome.

The whole conversation assumes organizational knowledge exists somewhere and just needs better organization. But the most valuable organizational knowledge evaporates at the moment of creation.