Comment by yomismoaqui
9 hours ago
Better woodworking analogy:
If manual coding is a saw, using agentic AI coding is a table saw.
It can make some work faster but there are still things done better with a manual saw. And if you don't learn how to use it well you can lose some fingers.
This analogy doesn't work because with a table saw you still decide where to cut.
The AI picks the wood, decides where and how to cut, and builds the table, and sometimes it decides the square table you told it to build has five legs. But you still call yourself a carpenter either way.