The Great Flattening

With advances in frontier coding models, the engineering bottleneck is shifting from writing code to designing Agent Harnesses. Now the engineer's core role is to encode into agents the judgment that orchestrates planning, testing, review, and deployment.

As cloud-based multi-agent systems replace existing engineering workflows, the structure of software organizations is predicted to gradually flatten. In this process, humans' core competitiveness will shift from technical implementation to Customer Insight and Product Judgment.