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Original: https://addyosmani.com/blog/own-the-outer-loop/
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Summary
A written keynote (AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026) arguing that as coding agents take over the “inner loop” of investigation, implementation, and verification, engineers must own the “outer loop” of Quality, Verdict, and Answerability — deciding what ships, why it’s safe, and who is accountable if it’s wrong — and naming three hidden costs of delegating without retaining that ownership: cognitive surrender, cognitive debt, and the orchestration tax.