Comment by sporkland

A few reasons I'd say:

1. Our incentive structure in software has always been to a large extent driven by more features [1]. Agent driven development has poured gasoline on that fire.

2. Despite all the effort we put into quality assurance by engineering teams, it's still hard to full de-risk releases across a broad set of configurations use cases, etc. Especially as most agents and even the test hierarchy itself tends to favor unit or module tests and these issues tend to pop up at integration points or hard to test non functional requirements.

So I think what we're seeing is people are rapidly adopting agent lead development due to #1 but the risk reduction pipelines haven't caught up with #2. I think they eventually will but we're definitely in for a rough road for a bit.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/12/09/simplicity/