[maqnius]

I skimmed through one of the videos and it reminded me of how I just had a week of mainly reviewing other's code and supporting their work.

When I finally had the occasion to code myself, I felt so much better and less stressed at the end of the day.

My point is: what I just saw is hopefully not my future.

I sometimes read the opinion, that those who like the programming part of software engineering, don't like „agentic engineering“ and vica versa. But can we really assume that Armin Ronacher doesn't like programming?

[simonw]

It's easy to find counter-examples to that idea that people who like working with coding agents don't enjoy programming. I'm one of those people - I'm enjoying myself so much getting agents to build stuff for me, and I've enjoyed the craft of programming for 25+ years. I'm doing what I did before, just faster and with less time spent on the frustrating, repetitive bits.

[esafak]

Same here. I like debating the architecture, API, schema, algorithms, data structures, and user experience. Once all that is done, I hand off the implementation.

[bdangubic]

sooooo much this. I am in the same 25+ (almost 30) and more and more thinking that there is something there that us “veterans” dig this so much. perhaps it is the discipline we have built over the years that is being applied religiously with agents…