Let's assume AI is 10x perfect than humnas in accuracy and produces 10x less bugs and increases the speed by 1000x compared to a very capable software engineer.
Now imagine this: A car travels at a road that has 10x more bumps but it is traveling 1000x slower pace so even though there are 10x bumps, your ride will feel less bumpy because you're encountering them at far lower pace.
Now imagine a road that has 10x less bumps on the road but you're traveling at 1000x the speed. Your ride would be lot more bumpy.
That's the agentic coding for you. Your ride would be a lot more painful. There's lots of denial around that but as time progresses it'll be very hard to deny.
Lastly - vibe coding is honest but agentic coding is snake oil [0] and these arguments about having harnesses that have dozens of memory, agent and skill files with rules sprinkled in them pages and pages of them is absolutely wrong as well. Such paradigm assumes that LLMs are perfect reliable super accurate rule followers and only problem as industry that we have is not being able to specify enough rules clearly enough.
Such a belief could only be held by someone who hasn't worked with LLMs long enough or is a totally non technical person not knowledgeable enough to know how LLMs work but holding on to such wrong belief system by highly technical community is highly regrettable.