Everything I've written about working with agents — the map, where to start, what engineers get wrong — quietly assumes something that isn't true for a lot of people: that you chose your tool.

I'm freelance. I pick what I use, I change it when something better appears, and the cost of being wrong is mine. That's an unusual position, and writing as though it were universal is a blind spot I'd rather name than have pointed out.

Plenty of people are handed a licence for one thing and told to get on with it. So: what actually changes, and what can you do about it.

Two situations, and they're not the same problem

You have some influence over what gets adopted. Then this is a persuasion problem, and the argument that works isn't the one most people reach for.