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In summary, the rise of AI coding agents has shifted the bottleneck from writing code to defining unambiguous specifications and supervising automated work.
- AI shifts the bottleneck from coding to writing specs.
- Senior engineers face overwhelming code review loads.
- Junior developers are faster but need architectural oversight.
- Tribal knowledge risks require formal documentation.
- Teams need to supervise AI agents and test suites.
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