Agentic Coding Teams
Agentic Coding Teams: What the Evidence Says About Teams of Humans Working with AI Agents, by Pierluigi Pugliese and Dario Zanotto.
The conversation about AI in software development has collapsed into two unhelpful extremes: the claim that nothing important has changed, and the promise that human teams are about to disappear into a fully automated “dark factory”. The truth lies in the middle, in the real teams that already use agents as collaborators every day.
This book is a calm, evidence-based guide to how those teams actually work, and to what the current research genuinely supports, rather than what the marketing on either side would have you believe. Every substantive claim has been checked against its source, drawing on peer-reviewed studies, large-scale developer surveys, and industry research that publishes its methodology.
It spans team size and human–agent collaboration, the hidden costs of working with agents (cognitive load, cognitive fatigue, the cost of tokens, and the security tax), the changing role of the Scrum Master and Agile Coach, and the governance and sovereignty questions that AI raises. It closes with a measured answer to the dark-factory claim.
Available in English and Italian (PDF).
A note on how this book was made: it was written with heavy use of AI, which is deliberate and fitting for its subject. The content is nonetheless checked with care, and the judgement about what is true, and what is worth saying, remained the authors'.
Available in English and Italian editions from the Connexxo shop.