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Coding agents raise the autonomy-to-authority question

Coding agents raise the autonomy-to-authority question

A developer building with coding agents says giving an agent permission to write code, run tests, commit changes and open PRs feels reasonable, but that adding more agents creates chains where it's unclear who was authorized to do what.

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