Comment by hitchstory

>as though framing problems "in a way coding agents can solve" is itself a well-understood or bounded problem.

It's not, but if you can A) make it cheap to try out different types of framings - not all of them have to work and B) automate everything else then the labor intensity of programming decreases drastically.

>At commercial quality, is it an accessible skill for inexperienced people

I'd expect the opposite, it would be an extremely inaccessible skill requiring high skill and high pay. But, if 2 people can deliver as much as 15 people at a higher quality and they're paid triple, it's still way cheaper overall.

I would still expect somebody following this development pattern to routinely discover a problem the LLM can't deal with and have to dive under the hood to fix it - digging down below multiple levels of abstraction. This would be Hard with a capital H.