The favors we used to need (opens in new tab)

I ended the last post on a promise. That one was about the day I stopped doubting AI coding agents, and about how much further they let a single experienced engineer reach: things you can now build alone in an afternoon that used to take a team and a month. Then I dodged the obvious next question. If one person’s reach can expand this much, the way teams are built around that person has to change too, and this is the start of that argument. Less about me this time, more about everyone standin...