The AI Coding Maturity Ladder: Do Your Reps Before You Scale
There's a pattern I see constantly when coaching software engineers on AI-augmented workflows. Someone reads about multi-agent orchestration, installs a bleeding-edge framework, spins up five parallel agents, and within an hour has a codebase full of plausible-looking code that doesn't quite work, isn't tested, and follows no coherent design. They skipped the ladder.
