Field Reports
Patterns observed across projects.
The interview formats we inherited from 2019 cannot tell the difference between someone who experimented with AI for a weekend and someone who has lived inside an agentic workflow for six months. Here are the five instincts I test for, and the four tactics I use to surface them.
Agents gave you the ability to start more projects. They didn't give you more mental RAM to hold them. The real cost isn't tokens or lines of code. It's the cognitive friction you pay every time you re-enter a session you didn't properly close.