open-source coding agents need maintainers, not just models (opens in new tab)

OpenAI published a Warp case study yesterday with the kind of number that makes everyone stop scrolling: agents now co-create around 90% of Warp's internal pull requests. That is a big number. It is also not the part I keep thinking about. The more interesting part is what Warp says long-running agent workflows need: observability, coordination, memory, and human review. That sounds less like "the model got smarter" and more like "we discovered software development is still a social and opera...