Thorsten Ball: engineers planning to fit agents into existing dev loops aren't thinking far enough
itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-09-15
Thorsten Ball follows up his "I am the bottleneck now" remark by arguing that most engineers who still imagine agents being dropped into existing development loops — tickets, pushing to GitHub, running CI, reviewing and merging PRs — aren't thinking far enough ahead. He sees agent-driven change as far bigger than patching today's workflows.
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