Engineering brief
Coding agents need paved roads, not solo cowboys.
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Stop fixing agent output. Improve the system.
Agent adoption fails without organizational redesign, not better models.
Summary
Patrick Debois argues the key bottleneck in coding agent adoption is organizational, not technical. Developers
initially resist becoming 'prompt engineers,' but a new technical path opens when they build tooling
and harnesses for agents. This shifts their identity from code writers to system builders.
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