[kseniamorph]

Saw the edit: I think that clarification was important. The core point resonates with me personally. The shift isn't about writing less code, it's about where the real judgment lives. Knowing what to build, how to decompose a problem, which patterns to reach for - and critically, when the model is confidently wrong. Without that foundation you're not moving faster, you're just making bad decisions faster. The scope point resonates too. Small, well-defined tasks with verifiable output is where agents actually shine.

[t43562]

Without writing some code how will people really know what's right? I've supervised people before - one thinks one knows best and pontificates at them and then when one actually starts working in the codebase onself many issues become clear. If you never get your hands dirty your decisions will tend off towards badness.