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One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment

Maggie Appleton · 13 Apr 2026

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  1. More individual output doesn't solve problems that require everyone to communicate and coordinate. It makes them worse.
  2. The hard question is no longer how to build it. It's should we build it. Agreeing on what to build is the new bottleneck.
  3. The PR and the issue are the wrong primitives that can't handle the speed, shape, and volume of agentic work.

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