15+ years of working with coding agents

No, the title is not a mistake, nor did I use my time travel pass to give you insights from the future. Bear with me for a moment while I explain my thinking.From individual contributor to oversight roleI started writing RavenDB in a spare bedroom, which turned into an office. The project grew from a sparkle in my head that wouldn’t let me sleep into a major project in very short order. Today, I want to talk about a pretty important stage that happened during that growth phase. Somewhere between having five and ten full-time developers working on RavenDB, I lost the ability to keep track of every single line of code that was going into the project.I had been the primary developer for years at this point, I wrote the majority of the code, and I was the person making all the key decisions in the project. And then, gradually, I… wasn't that guy anymore. There were too many moving parts, too many developers, too many decisions happening in parallel for me to have my hands on all of it.…