Comment by brabel
1 day ago
I wrote code by hand for 20 years. Now I use AI for nearly all code. I just can’t compete in speed and thoroughness. As the post says, you must guide the AI still. But if you think you can continue working without AI in a competitive industry, I am absolutely sure you will eventually have a very bad time.
>I just can’t compete in speed and thoroughness
I certainly know engineers for which this is true but unfortunately they were never particularly thorough or fast to begin with.
I believe you can tell which way the wind is blowing by looking at open source.
Other than being flooded with PRs high profile projects have not seen a notable difference - certainly no accelerated enhancements. there has definitely been an explosion of new projects, though, most of dubious quality.
Spikes and research are definitely cheaper now.
Maybe the bottleneck for most high profile open source is PR review and not coding?
The most thorough review is done when you write the code, it takes much more effort to be as thorough when you read it as when you write it.
So if what you say is true then agentic coding will be net negative for same quality.