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Agentic Coding is a Trap | Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.

DEV Community·Lars Faye | Confident Coding·about 1 month ago
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"AI does the coding, and the human in the loop is the orchestrator" This is the sentiment being hyped up around the industry currently: traditional coding is all but dead, and Spec Driven Development (SDD) is the future. You generate a plan, and disconnect from writing any code. The agents know better, and handle all the implementation. You are there as the expert , to provide "good taste", review the outputs, and constantly steer the agent(s) to execute the plan that you meticulously put together. The workflow takes many shapes at this point, but in general, it is a process where someone defines the project's requirements (simultaneously at a micro and macro level), generates a plan, and then pulls the slot machine lever over and over, iterating and reiterating with often multiple agent instances until it's done. All the while, putting a growing distance between the "orchestrator" and the code that is being generated and committed.…

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