Even on a single team, every developer ends up with their own individual AI workflow, and the industry hasn't figured out how to collaborate on those workflows together — like sharing skill files — the way real multiplayer software engineering requires.
CJ Reynolds says that despite AI hype claiming solo devs with agents can replace teams, nobody has actually solved how teams share and collaborate on agent workflows — software is still fundamentally a multiplayer endeavor. ✦ AI generated
CJ Reynolds · Syntax · 2026-07-06 · original ↗
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even though I'm on the syntax team I'm still kind of a solo dev in the sense that I'm working on on a lot of side projects and all the workflows that I've created are just for me and my ability to write code and review it but I haven't even thought about how that works on a team and I think that's going to be the answer moving forward.
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9:12there is some really interesting work being done in that space. What does team work look like in this world of AI agents? I think that's the biggest question because a lot of devs have even on one individual one big team every dev is going to have their own workflow and they haven't necessarily figured out how to collaborate on that like how to share skill files or workflows and um like
9:38personally like I even though I'm on the syntax team I'm still kind of a solo dev in the sense that I'm working on on a lot of side projects and all the workflows that I've created are just for me and my ability to like write code and review it but at I haven't even thought about how that works on a team and I think that's going to that's going to be
9:55the answer moving forward be I mean I I feel like it is I feel like there will be some people that say oh we don't need teams going forward and I did see some tweets from maybe they were rage [snorts] baiting but I saw tweets from people that were like like we don't need managers anymore just hire a few devs and that's all you need or one or two
10:11devs and that's all you need but I mean like real software is built by multiple engineers collaborating and like that's We're still not there in terms of how we work with agents. So, I think it's something to think about as well. >> Yeah. Uh folks, if you're just joining us, we're talking about does reading the code even matter? Twitter has been a buzz. All a lot of like really
10:33interesting people have chimed in on this. Uh this actually was one of my favorite uh tweets because CJ says, "Some guy named Notch says, "How much better do the poll requests have to get before you stop reading the code?" And I said, "Do you really not know who Notch is?" And he was like, "Nope. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, I didn't >> uh people don't know Notch uh created
10:52Minecraft also just uh Minecraft something that has been going on every single day in my household for the past billion years. So um not just for me, my son is absolutely obsessed with Minecraft like many other uh third graders. So um yeah, before you stop reading the poll requests. Yes, poll requests have to get better. That's funny. >> Yeah. Uh there's one more tweet from Dax I want to highlight that and he always