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    "text": "What I've seen is that when we started introducing … and loops and eventually more autonomous work within the whole organization, a new technical path opened. All of a sudden, we were helping the agent with tooling, building tooling for the agent and that kind of reignited some of the developers … kind of felt that it wasn't for them. Not all of a sudden, they were like, yes, we can do this, we have that knowledge, we're like somehow helping this even with a kind of programmatic way.",
    "speaker": "Patrick Debois",
    "role": "Product DevRel Lead",
    "organization": "Tessl",
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      "title": "Coding Agents Don't Scale Themselves. Neither Do Your Teams. The Rise of Agent Enablement",
      "type": "talk",
      "date": "2026-07-02",
      "publisher": "AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 (YouTube)",
      "locator": "03:53",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJtYuqwm7E"
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    "context": "Debois, who says earlier in the talk that his observations include Tessl, is describing developers' reaction to prompting and spec-writing and then to building harnesses; the speaker does not say which team 'we' is.",
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