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Published by Geoffrey Litt (T1.5 source). The original is at https://geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck.html.

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Geoffrey Litt argues that as AI agents write more code, human understanding of that code becomes the primary bottleneck, and developers still need to comprehend what their agents produce.

Names a concrete shift in agentic coding work — comprehension, not generation, is now the limiting factor — with implications for how teams review and own agent output.

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