Agents Don't Compensate, They Expose

The Hidden Prerequisite Last week I had three AI agents running in parallel. One was building a frontend component. One was implementing the corresponding backend handler. A third was writing contract tests to verify they'd talk to each other correctly. All three finished, all three produced working code, and the system worked on the first deploy. This isn't typical. Sometimes I'm still iterating multiple times, fixing what agents get wrong, re-running failed CI (automated). But the fact that it