My lack of stress about AI coding comes from years of being a principal engineer. Where the job isn’t to write 100% of the code, it’s to set technical direction and ensure we’re going in the right direction as a project.

I both write code and use coding agents. Because I find it’s often easier to set technical direction by showing some scaffolding, then later letting the agent take over the details. I waste less time with my agent if I can show it roughly what I want.

Occasionally I get disconnected by what my agent colleague is doing (or it gaslights me) and I have to dive in to right the ship a bit.