Software engineers now design AI agent boundaries, not code

VentureBeat reports that with tools like Cursor and Claude Code, the friction of writing syntax has collapsed, shifting engineers' focus to designing constraints AI agents can't break. The piece examines how commit histories show this change over the last two years.
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