“And also coordination debts. This is when you get really hairy merge conflicts because agents will touch in the same files or developers even doing duplicated work because they both picked up a thing and tried to finish it in one day.”
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From “Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub”, found 2026-10-14.
Her other line from the talk: “Agreeing on what to build is the new bottleneck.” Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.