I’ve seen the opposite. The best devs are aggressively embracing agents - producing more, and at higher quality.
From the article:
> they are not hesitant to use a coding assistant, they are hesitant to go all in and let the agents do all the execution.
They are embracing the use of coding agents, but they still want to be in control. That also matches what I see from my most talented colleagues. They outsource certain tasks to the AI and verify the output.
My somewhat unpopular opinion is that only very good developers are able to use AI coding tools somewhat safely. They could have written the code themselves, but it's faster to have the agent do and then verify. The rest of us couldn't write the code, at least not when we start on a project. When we finish, we have some of the skills and could rely more on the AI tools if we were to do it again.
Yes sir! 100 times this.
The problems is the best devs aren’t the ones doing all the work. You have shitty devs too who are barely thinking or checking anything mixing slop code in with what whatever the best devs are doing, so it all eventually turns to shit.
This is also my experience in my own bubble. Even my friends who were skeptical for the longest started finding ways to perform cool cross-org work with them and accelerate their coding.
The biggest pocket of skilled holdouts I've noticed are in more artisan spaces where the craft of coding is part of the art. Things like old-school indie game developers where they're still sweating the assembly output and clock cycles.