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  "slug": "the-engineer-of-the-future-is-the-person-who-is-able-to-choose-what-is-w-1y9nwej",
  "url": "https://feed7.dev/p/the-engineer-of-the-future-is-the-person-who-is-able-to-choose-what-is-w-1y9nwej",
  "title": "\"The engineer of the future is the person who is able to choose what is worth doing.\" — Addy Osmani",
  "why_included": "Osmani argues that agent throughput makes evidence-backed judgment the engineering bottleneck: builders should require explainable diffs, tests, logs, and explicit ownership before shipping.",
  "summary": "Osmani separates agent execution from human responsibility: agents can route, merge, and operate within policy, while engineers own production verdicts. He cites **96%** who do not fully trust AI code, yet says only about half always verify before committing.",
  "practical_implication": "Design agent loops to return evidence—diffs, tests, logs, rationale, traces, or screenshots—then reserve human attention for deciding, verifying, approving, and owning. Keep repositories maintainable because cleaner code reportedly reduces tokens and revisits even when pass rates are similar.",
  "agent_context": "Osmani separates agent execution from human responsibility: agents can route, merge, and operate within policy, while engineers own production verdicts. He cites **96%** who do not fully trust AI code, yet says only about half always verify before committing.\n\nDesign agent loops to return evidence—diffs, tests, logs, rationale, traces, or screenshots—then reserve human attention for deciding, verifying, approving, and owning. Keep repositories maintainable because cleaner code reportedly reduces tokens and revisits even when pass rates are similar.\n\nMore parallel agents do not create more human cognitive bandwidth. Verification can move into harnesses and evals, and even taste may decay as an advantage; the durable boundary is whether someone understands the constraints, accepted risk, and blast radius.",
  "source": {
    "name": "AI Engineer",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n97BCfyFIvw",
    "published_at": "2026-07-14T17:16:43.000Z"
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    "More parallel agents do not create more human cognitive bandwidth. Verification can move into harnesses and evals, and even taste may decay as an advantage; the durable boundary is whether someone understands the constraints, accepted risk, and blast radius."
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  "lifecycle": "Current",
  "published_at": "2026-07-14T17:16:43.000Z",
  "modified_at": "2026-07-14T17:16:43.000Z",
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