Kent C. Dodds: An AI Agent Is 'a Junior Teammate With Infinite Stamina and Zero Context' — and Your Job Is Now to Manage It

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In 'How I Build Web Applications in 2026,' Dodds argues developers are increasingly project managers, product managers, and team leads orchestrating multiple agents rather than typing code, and that the scarce skill is supplying context and management, not syntax. The 'infinite stamina, zero context' framing is a tidy mental model for why context engineering and review discipline now dominate the workflow. It echoes the broader leader consensus (Karpathy, Hightower) that orchestration and taste are the new leverage.