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Thorsten Ball: '2026 Is the Year Agents and Codebases Melt' — Judging Code Becomes the Core Skill
Ball argues the boundary between agents and codebases is dissolving in 2026, and that the durable engineering skill is shifting toward judging code — evaluating what an agent produced — rather than writing it line by line. It complements his data point that Claude Code overwhelmingly builds custom rather than pulling dependencies. The practical implication is investing in review speed and evaluation harnesses as the new bottleneck, echoing the industry-wide 'verification capacity' theme.
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