The coming coordination calamity
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As AI coding agents become prevalent, engineers are shifting from writing code to coordinating multiple agents running in parallel. Drawing on parallels from supercomputing (where network coordination overhead limits scalability) and organizational theory (larger teams pay higher coordination costs), the author argues that managing multiple coding agents adds significant new coordination burden on top of existing human collaboration. Companies like Cloudflare and Meta are simultaneously reducing middle management and increasing spans of control, which compounds the problem. The author warns this transition will be bumpier than most anticipate.
