[tedmiston]

> I work with one guy who's just completely lost the ability consensus-build ideas with human beings. When he reaches consensus with his AI assistants on a design, analysis, plan of action, etc., he's extremely resistant to considering any other options or accepting any other input. When people do push back, he ...

To me this reads like a personal resistance to feedback / resistance to behavior change or a very jr eng more than agent related. Code isn't sacred — LLMs often easily generate absurdly overcomplicated garbage spaghetti code, but this appears to be getting better, and they are "steerable" towards better outputs with a few rounds of revisions, and some light process around a light spec, TDD, etc.

[SpicyLemonZest]

It's definitely agent related in some sense because it started very abruptly when he started using agents. I could believe a story where it's less "agents themselves have wrecked him" and more "agents have enabled his ambitions to scale to ideas he doesn't have the seniority to execute on".