Your engineers weren't doing what I'm describing I promise.

There are multiple places in my post where I explicitly describe the process by which you intimately:

- make the agent do verified work (the e2e tests and test driven thing)

- watch the agent work (the second monitor thing)

- read your own code (the tests/prod mirror thing

- play with the work and perfect it (the tech debt and UI perfect thing)

Plus a ton of other places in my post I very clearly describe being intimately involved in building and selling the work.

That to me is basic god damn competency. What your engineers did is a fad, and it won't last, and I'm sorry they abdicated their professional duty.

If you wish to screen for that sort of shit in future/current hires, show them my post and see if they turn up their noses or if they get excited and creative. You want only the latter.