Dev tooling
The tools and standards between writing code and shipping it — and what agents are doing to them.
The bottleneck moved to code review. Don't automate the part that mattered.
Agentic tools made writing code faster, so the queue backed up at review. Pointing the same agents at the queue automates the half that never mattered.
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