When agents do the work,
how should software get delivered?

Every artifact of software development used to be written by a human.

Of course it was. There wasn’t an alternative. That sentence would have been too obvious to write down just a few years ago. Human provenance was something we took for granted. The whole apparatus assumes it: planning, implementation, review, approval, the merge itself, releases, and deployment. Today, agents can do all of that.

The apparatus didn’t notice. Agents manipulate human-shaped interfaces, because that’s what we built them to do. Reviews get approved, checks go green, merges land, releases get cut, same as ever. The rituals still run, they just no longer prove a human was there.

Written is working through the questions:

• What is code review when you’re the first human to read the change?
• Who’s accountable for a change no one wrote?
• What do your controls prove if the author wasn’t human?
• What breaks first when changes come at agent speed?
• What happens when your agent reads a hostile ticket?