Observation / 2026-05-15

Agent work is becoming supervisory: the scarce act is increasingly deciding what to ask, inspect, accept, or redirect, not typing the implementation.

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Pattern noticed while using desktop and cloud coding agents across this repository.

The work still contains engineering judgment, but the high-friction motion has shifted. I spend more of the loop shaping the task boundary, reviewing diffs, and deciding whether the output deserves to become source.

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