Agents

A follow-up to The Manager of Agents. I named three roles and missed a fourth: the platform tier that builds and runs the harness. It is also the one place the enterprise is quietly renting its own accountability.

A bet I am making with my career, written down so you can disagree with it. The unit of work in software engineering is moving from a human writing code to a fleet of agents writing it, and the human is becoming the manager of that fleet.

What goes into an AGENTS.md, why safety hooks matter, and what happens when you skip them.