Continuous Development still has prerequisites (opens in new tab)

There’s a pattern showing up in how teams talk about agentic coding. The agent writes code fast, faster than any of us could alone, so the next move feels obvious: ship it fast too. Out come the words that used to mark a mature engineering org. Trunk-based development. Feature flags. Continuous delivery, many releases a day. The reasoning goes that if generation is no longer the bottleneck, the release process shouldn’t be either.