If you think Agentic AI coding is the road to zero- or minimal-effort code in vast quantities? You are, as previously discussed in various blogs here, in for a world of hurt. Law 0 most definitely applies. What you get may do what you want, but you will have no clue what exactly it does, or how it does it, or what to do if the AI apocalypse hits and you can't afford the tokens to fix it. You don't get brilliant, secure, pretty, apps for free. Or even just for the cost of the tokens.
AI-assisted development has pretty much become the standard manner of software creation, especially greenfield projects or prototyping advancements and replacements. That is affecting how, and what, we consider the importance, or focus, is for software engineers. The balance between speed and what you create, or control, has fundamentally altered.
There’s no escaping it, even if you wanted to. AI is here—from LinkedIn and Facebook through […]
We have left the dystopian lands of "move fast and break stuff" to a procedurally generated island surrounded by sharks, with cannibalistic natives eating any code that disagrees while playing dice with corporate environments.
