Is It My Project?

In my last post I introduced my side project, BEAR - a tool that tries to show how agentic development may be done in a safer way, by creating boundaries for agents as they develop, and allowing humans to be alerted when agents try to expand these boundaries. But I want to focus on something else in my project. I want to focus on the “my”. Because while “I” was “developing”, I kept asking myself - is it “my” project? This new world of agent-assisted development creates some discomfort for those of us who still remember the time when we wrote code by hand. But it’s more than writing code. The whole process - brainstorming, designing, defining tasks, managing the roadmap, all of it was done using my team of agents. Now, it’s not that this process is new to me. I have been working for years as a software architect, so my day-to-day has for a long time been about talking to people and not writing code. This is what I do. I talk to people to brainstorm, design, manage the roadmap, plan, and