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Maggie Appleton from GitHub Next makes a sharp argument: coding agents were built for solo developers, but real software is a team sport. When implementation becomes fast and cheap, the bottleneck moves to alignment – deciding what to build and why, which requires context that lives in people’s heads, not codebases. She introduces Ace, a research prototype from GitHub Next that pairs Claude agents with multiplayer sessions running on cloud microVMs, letting designers, PMs, and engineers collaborate on plans before agents execute. The underlying claim is provocative coming from inside GitHub: pull requests and issues may be the wrong primitives for agentic development. With Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code all optimizing for single-player speed, very few teams are seriously working on the coordination layer that breaks down when you scale agents across a team.
