Are AI agents changing how engineers think, not just how fast they ship?
Relevant-Potential17 · reddit · 2026-09-20
A developer shares how AI agents are changing his working habits, not just his speed: instead of thinking through a problem before touching code, he now throws it at an agent, inspects the approach, and decides where to take it.
The lower cost of being wrong also pushes him to try more ideas. The thread asks whether others notice the same shift in how they think, debug, research and make decisions — not in productivity numbers.
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