Agentic Coding Is a Trap

Re:Agentic Coding Is a Trap by rimliu on Monday May 04, 2026 @10:40AM (#48009376)

abstraction needs to be built on something. If there is little in your brain, there is little you can do with it.

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Re:Agentic Coding Is a Trap by echelon on Monday May 04, 2026 @07:17PM (#48016208)

I think everyone's just citing platitudes at this point.

The earth will move on. Smart people will continue to exist. I'll bet on the smart people.

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Re:Agentic Coding Is a Trap by abalashov on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @09:16PM (#48030973)

They're not platitudes. To paraphrase my software mentor, now elderly, on LLMs:

It's an impressive force multiplier, but there has to be some force to multiply.

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