Big VFX studios employ pipeline TDs, people who write much of the code that keeps tools like Maya and Houdini working together. Most solo creators have never had one. That gap is about to matter more, because coding agents are very good at writing that kind of code. My read is that coding agents took off first because code is text, and a terminal can drive nearly every developer tool. Pro creative apps have a similar layer. Blender exposes most of its tools through Python. After Effects and…