After 7 years coding, is anyone still learning their own codebase in the agent era
Swimming_Attempt_231 · reddit · 2026-09-16
A self-taught developer with 7 years of experience describes a split on his team: he uses agents only for chunks (a function, a migration, a test file) and still understands the whole system, while two colleagues have agents build entire features — PRs pass fine with CodeRabbit catching issues, but when asked how the payment flow works, they just open the agent and ask it. He asks the community: is this the norm now, or is he out of touch? The post raises the concern that system understanding is silently migrating from engineers to agents.
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