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The author reflects on coding agents, arguing that their true value lies not in autonomy but in collapsing the gap between intent and execution. He notes that coding agents have become a general-purpose harness, and their organizational impact—reducing social overhead—shifts the bottleneck from permission to individual action.
An open-source access gateway deployed an LLM-based reviewer for production commands; the unexpected effect was a transformation in the security team's role from a binary gatekeeper to a judgment layer over the AI agent.