Solo Devs With Agent Armies May Write All the Code, but Products Still Need Teams
bendee983 · x · 2026-10-03
Responding to the theory that dev teams are disappearing, engineer bendee983 offers a contrarian take:
- Writing code may indeed no longer require teamwork — an experienced engineer with an army of agents can do it alone;
- But building software products still demands teams and diverse human perspectives: debates, experiments, exposure to contrarian and wacky ideas outside your bubble.
His conclusion: if AI solves coding to the point of near-zero human intervention (still a big if), building software becomes more of a human endeavor, not less.
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