[metamet]

Outside of simply not being true, the sentiment of what you're saying isn't much different than:

"Essentially all software is augmented with Stack Overflow now, or if not, built with technology or on platforms that is."

Agentic development isn't a panacea nor as widespread as you claim. I'd wager that the vast majority of developers treat AI is a more specified search engine to point them in the direction they're looking for.

AI hallucination is still as massive problem. Can't tell you the number of times I've used agentic prompting with a top model that writes code for a package based on the wrong version number or flat out invents functionality that doesn't exist.

[aspenmartin]

I just cannot fathom how people can say something like this today, agentic tools have now passed an inflection point. People want to point out the short comings and fully ignore that you can now make a fully functioning iPhone app in a day without knowing swift or front end development? That I can at my company do two projects simultaneously, both of them done in about 1/4 the time and one would not have even been attempted before due to the SWE headcount you would have to steal. There are countless examples I have in my own personal projects that just are such an obvious counter example to the moaning “I appreciate the craft” people or “yea this will never work because people still have to read the code” (today sure and this is now made more manageable by good quality agents, tomorrow no. No you won’t need to read code.)

[nickorlow]

I've found that the effort required to get a good outcome is roughly equal to the effort of doing it myself.

If I do it myself, I get the added bonus of actually understanding what the code is doing, which makes debugging any issues down the line way easier. It's also in generally better for teams b/c you can ask the 'owner' of a part of the codebase what their intuition is on an issue (trying to have AI fill in for this purpose has been underwhelming for me so far).

Trying to maintain a vibecoded codebase essentially involves spelunking though a non-familliar codebase every time manual action is needed to fix an issue (including reviewing/verifying the output of an AI tool's fix for the issue).

(For small/pinpointed things, it has been very good. e.g.: write a python script to comb through this CSV and print x details about it/turn this into a dashboard)