Martin’s framing (org and system-level guardrails like risk tiering, TDD as discipline, and platforms as “bullet trains”) matches what I’ve been seeing too.
A useful complement is the programmer-level shift: agents are great at narrow, reversible work when verification is cheap. Concretely, think small refactors behind golden tests, API adapters behind contract tests, and mechanical migrations with clear invariants. They fail fast in codebases with implicit coupling, fuzzy boundaries, or weak feedback loops, and they tend to amplify whatever hygiene you already have.
So the job moves from typing to making constraints explicit and building fast verification, while humans stay accountable for semantics and risk.
If useful, I expanded this “delegation + constraints + verification” angle here: https://thomasvilhena.com/2026/02/craftsmanship-coding-five-...