Thanks for such thoughtful reading! You’ve picked up on the part I most wanted to emphasize: faster implementation makes the surrounding engineering work more visible, and often more important.

For me, a useful review question is: “What could still be wrong even if every test passes?” The tests might encode the wrong assumption, miss a compatibility requirement, or never exercise the failure path that matters in production. A clear task contract gives us a basis for asking those questions—but we still have to challenge the contract itself.

That’s where I see agents being most useful: helping us gather evidence and explore those gaps, while a human remains accountable for deciding whether the change is ready to ship.