[lukaslalinsky]

My entire professional life, I've been dealing with coworkers who just want their code shipped. Overly complex solutions to simple problems, inefficient algorithms, nested spaghetti code. And it was hard to just plainly reject it. I eventually had to become a mentor, teach them how to do it better. I've called myself a programmer even though I mostly just helped other people to program.

Over the years, I've lost the ability to focus on writing code myself, but I've seen a rebirth with the age of coding agents. I find it easier to review their code and they always follow my guidance. In fact, I sometimes feel like around year 2000 when I had "google" skills and the people around me did not.

It's much easier to produce garbage with AI and it will inevitably happen, but engineers who are able to think will simply use it as a new tool.

[notnullorvoid]

> Over the years, I've lost the ability to focus on writing code myself

If this weren't the case how do you think it would affect your usage of coding agents?

[lukaslalinsky]

I've always been more interested in the computer science and software engineering aspects. I did enjoy writing code occasionally, but overall, I was wishing I had some kind of neural implant to convert my thoughts into code. Coding agents are now good enough that I consider that dream as realized, and with that benefit that I do not actually need any implant in my brain. :)