I'm glad to have read this just to bring visibility to "the senior engineer death spiral". That was really helpful to me, it's something I am more or less experiencing myself due to this agentic era.

Now about this article, idk, maybe i'm just jaded on what engineering has become. My gut reaction is agentic engineering feels wrong.

Getting that on-call incident for a piece of code I own, when i've lost the mental map of what the black box does, it keeps me up at night.

Is the solution really going to be, "use ai for that!". Ugh.