The Audience I Didn't Know I Had — Part One
There is a lot of conversation right now about one developer coordinating forty coding agents.
I am not going to pretend I know whether that is good or bad. It is clearly a real model of working, and there are people doing remarkable things with it. But I keep coming back to a more ordinary question: what does agentic development look like for a team of ten developers, each working with one or two agents, while still staying in sync with one another?
For most organizations, that is probably the more immediate problem.
There is a familiar failure mode in software development: the hero coder. One person understands the system, carries the context, makes the impossible things happen, and becomes a bottleneck whether anyone intends it or not. Forty agents may make that person more productive. It may also turn the same problem up to eleven.
