There is a second-order effect I see, here: when generating work becomes dramatically cheaper, failed work also becomes dramatically more common.

With coding agents, cheap intelligence doesn't just mean producing the same software for less, but rather trying five implementations, letting agents run longer, touching larger scopes, and supervising fewer intermediate steps.

That changes which infrastructure matters. When attempts are expensive, you optimize for success, while when attempts are cheap, you start optimizing for how cheaply you can inspect, reject and recover from failure.

Git was an enormous enabler of cheap human experimentation, and I suspect we'll end up building analogous primitives around autonomous work.