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The argument here is that CLAUDE.md files, skills, review docs, and code comments are the modern evolution of what engineers have always done: encode domain knowledge as infrastructure. Agents multiply the value of that automation, so every team should be writing the scaffolding that lets an agent (or a new hire) contribute on day one without needing someone's tribal knowledge.
Riffing on bcherny's thread about automation and agents, the point lands cleanly: software engineering has always been the profession of automation. The quote reframes the CLAUDE.md/skills/infra argument as a natural continuation of what good engineers have always done.
