Atomic tickets work for human teams. For agents, they just reproduce fragmentation at machine speed.
The argument is simple and structural: the unit of work you hand an agent is functionally a prompt, not a task. How you write it determines what the agent does, not what you intended. The gap between those two things is where projects fail.
The piece is short and does not waste your time. Read it to understand why your current ticketing instincts are the wrong mental model for agentic workflows.
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