Will Larson (Imprint staff eng/EM) contrasts a 2026 CI/CD migration with a 2014 Uber service migration, arguing that coding agents have effectively eliminated time as a development bottleneck — shifting engineers from implementation to design, review, and iteration. He frames the remaining constraints as judgment (knowing what to build and how to build it maintainably) and eventually creativity, proposing that "skill packages" — curated, expert-authored agent context distributed via package managers — will be the primary mechanism for scaling judgment across teams. A substantive practitioner account of what agentic development actually looks like in production.
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Judgment and creativity are all you need
As coding agents eliminate implementation bottlenecks, engineering shifts from writing code to exercising judgment in design and review, with "skill packages" becoming the mechanism to distribute expert judgment at scale.
Friday, March 20, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Sidebar.ioBY sys://pipeline
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