Reddit debate: AI agents are bringing back the Silo Engineer, only faster and more reckless
erwinalp5 · reddit · 2026-10-11
A Reddit post argues software development has come full circle to the era of the "Silo Engineer" — just on steroids.
Back then, one engineer would disappear into a cubicle for weeks, build something nobody reviewed, then wonder who wrote such garbage. Today, smaller teams juggle three projects each, and coworkers barely talk because everyone is talking to their agent: tickets go to Claude, Slack replies are drafted by Claude, code review runs on CodeRabbit or Claude, and the daily routine is "have your agent talk to my agent."
The author sees the same isolated pattern returning at a much faster and more reckless pace, ending with a shrug: let's see how this ends. The post struck a chord as commentary on how AI tools may be degrading team communication.
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