Coding Agents Don't Scale Themselves. Neither Do Your Teams. — Patrick Debois, Tessl
Coding agent adoption is blocked by organizational readiness, not technical limitations.
“a lot of developers told me, "We didn't sign up for this. We didn't sign up for better prompting, writing better specs."”
Patrick Debois draws a parallel between resistance to continuous delivery in 2009 and current skepticism toward autonomous coding agents, arguing the bottleneck is organizational unreadiness rather than technical immaturity. He predicts agent orchestration will commoditize and cease to be a differentiator, shifting the real challenge to team dynamics and structure. Developer pushback against becoming 'conductors of agents' signals cultural friction that organizations must address independently of the technology.