“Agents are stupid; it did not work for me” cannot be diagnosed without the original brief, context, skill version, tools, model, execution trace, and points of manual intervention.
Previously, someone could open the code, show a flawed approach, and explain how to improve it. Now the delegation process itself must be examined. But the session history stays local, the environment changes, context becomes stale, and the next demonstration happens on a different task and proves nothing.
As a result, the team does not learn from real failures. There is no way to see precisely where the developer went wrong: framing the task poorly, providing insufficient context, choosing the wrong tool, skipping the plan, or intervening too early.
Onboarding degenerates into folklore: “install some model, configure some harness, try a prompt like this.” The old engineering culture changes, but a new one does not emerge because experience is not captured in reproducible artifacts.