This assumes that "humans owning the intent, taste, and consequences" is necessarily a good thing, and agents will necessarily do a worse job. This is not grounded in anything but vibes.

That is grounded in cold, hard reality. LLMs suck at programming and have zero taste for good design.

Agents are nothing more than magnifiers for the operator. They 10x the user.

If you find your agent sucks at programming and has zero taste for good design, then that's arguably a 10x of the operator.

I'm quite pleased with the quality of programming and design that I'm able to achieve with the processes I do with agents.

I've certainly noticed that when I watch a junior use AI they've produced nothing but the most intolerable slop man has ever seen. And I've seen principles and architects produce one shots that are such shining examples of quality engineering that they remain nothing more than goals to me.

People are vibecoding replicas of complex software like Photoshop, yet we cling on to, "LLMs suck at programming". Why?

Throughout my career I've met many engineers who drew a line in the sand and said I'll never work at a business. Who does a practice that accelerates the business and lowers the quality of the engineering.

Most of them exited this industry before their career was over.

Good luck to you