alt Hacker NewsWhy are good developers so wary of agentic development?
Perhaps because agentic development is aimed at replacing "good developers".
Agentic development tends to undermine the very process that creates "good developers".
Agentic development will do to software what off-shoring did to manufacturing.
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majorchord • today at 3:58 PM
Indeed, I think skills are like muscles... you need to keep using them well to stay strong. If you farm out all your thinking to an AI, your own skills and knowledge will diminish and your ability to design/debug/reason about your own (or any) code can fade.
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Nah, good developers are wary of agentic development because they have a high degree of understanding and intentionality for their designs. And they see how it easily becomes a crutch for a lack of understanding or intentionality.
> Agentic development will do to software what off-shoring did to manufacturing.
Agentic development will do to software what off-shoring did to software development.