AI is no longer merely a personal tool; it is an independent participant in production. Processes, roles, permissions, and ways of accumulating experience must therefore change along with the technology.
The common cause of these problems is captured by three properties that define most agentic pipelines today:
PersonalSubscriptions, API keys, models, prompts, skills, sessions, and accumulated experience are tied to an individual.
LocalThe runtime, worktrees, Unity, tests, active sessions, and compute live on that person’s machine.
ClosedThe team cannot see stages, traces, decisions, executors, artifacts, or causes of errors.
The company already has many personal agent stacks. What it lacks is a shared engineering process for working with agents.