The Landscape of Agentic Coding

There are two loud camps in agentic coding right now. I think they're both wrong.

Camp one says you need a human reviewing every line of AI-generated code before it ships. Responsible and "serious" - yet leaving reviewers increasingly swamped.

Camp two says let the agents do everything. Steve Yegge's Gas Town epitomizes this idea - 20-30 simultaneous agents with specialized roles, plus an audacious vision called "The Wasteland" that federates thousands of these teams together.

Somewhere between the swamp and the wasteland, there's a pragmatic path being paved: the human stays in the loop for every change - not wading through diffs, but charting the course. Exercising taste and judgment, and staying close enough to the ground to sense when things start to drift off course.