It'd be easy to simply say "skill issue" and dismiss this, but I think it's interesting to look at the possible outcomes here:

Option 1: The cost/benefit delta of agentic engineering never improves past net-zero, and bespoke hand-written code stays as valuable as ever.

Option 2: The cost/benefit becomes net positive, and economics of scale forever tie the cost of code production directly to the cost of inference tokens.

Given that many are saying option #2 is already upon us, I'm gonna keep challenging myself to engineer a way past the hurdles I run into with agent-oriented programming.

The deeper I get, the more articles like this feel like the modern equivalent of saying "internet connections are too slow to do real work" or "computers are too expensive to be useful for regular people".