Two Files, One Habit: How Agentic Coding Projects Are Learning to Remember

This started over a cup of coffee. My friend has been working on the people side of agentic coding. How do you actually get a team of engineers good at these tools on a large codebase, instead of two enthusiasts loving them and everyone else quietly going back to their old habits? Training, enablement, the unsexy stuff that decides whether a tool sticks. That was the conversation. What works, what falls apart at scale, the patterns people are landing on for serious projects. At some point I mentioned what I do with state and worklog files, and the thing snowballed. He hadn’t seen the pattern before. I’d been doing it for so long I’d stopped noticing it was a pattern. So I went home and started writing it down.