The delegation test is whether you can write the check first
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Every discussion I see about what to hand off to a coding agent sorts tasks by difficulty. Easy things to the agent, hard things to the human. It sounds obvious and it has been wrong in practice for me almost every time. The axis that actually predicts a good handoff is not difficulty. It is this:…
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- 2026-09-10 09:08 · DEV Community — AI
The delegation test is whether you can write the check first