We have had the fabled 10x engineer long before and independent of agentic coding. Some people claim it's real, others claim it's not, with much the same conviction. If something, that should be so clear cut, is debatable, why would anyone now be able to produce a convincing, discussion-resolving argument for (or against) agentic coding? We don't even manage to do that for tab/spaces.

The reason why both can't be resolved in a forum like this, is that coding output is hard to reason about for various reasons and people want it to be hard to reason about.

I would like to encourage people to think that the burden of proof always falls on themselves, to themselves. Managing to not be convinced in an online forum (regardless of topic or where you land on the issue) is not hard.