[thecoderpanda]

simonw nailed it. The pain was never "writing code." It was the random hour lost debugging why CI broke overnight because some dependency shipped a breaking change.

I run a dev community of ~1500 devs. The ones getting the most out of agents aren't throwing away frameworks. They're offloading the stuff nobody enjoys. OAuth scope spelunking, boilerplate migrations, flaky test debugging. That's where agents shine.

The actual risk nobody talks about: if you've never manually debugged a race condition, you won't catch it when the agent introduces one. Agents amplify what you already know. They don't replace knowing things.