Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
Summary
Rachel Laycock's post examines why skilled developers are wary of agentic development: building with agents is not the same as production-ready software, and guardrails, domain understanding, and human judgment are essential. A week-long whiteboard experiment showed teams mapping domains and setting tests, architecture checks, and CI/CD controls while agents wrote code, but production readiness remained a challenge due to frequent red builds and coordination needs.