My motivation for learning how to use agents has nothing to do with my ability. In fact I didn't think LLMs provided value for a very long time - the work I do tends to be embedded in nature ad LLMs were really bad at generating useful code.

Opus 4.5 changed that and like every programming tool I've used in the past, I decided to sit seriously with it and try and learn how to use it. If coding agents turn out to be a bust, then oh well, it goes into the graveyard of shit I've learned that has gone nowhere (Angular, Coffeescript, various NoSQL databases, various "big data" frameworks). Even now one of my favorite languages is Rust, but I really took the plunge into the language before async/await and people also called it overhyped.

If coding agents are real, I don't want to be struggling to learn how to use them while everyone else is being 10x more productive. There's no downside to learning how to use them for me. I've invested my time in many hyped software frameworks, some good and some bad.