"The Agentic Feeling Is That Google-Confidence on Steroids," Dev Reflects
enjalot · x · 2026-10-29
Developer enjalot recalls the moment he felt comfortable calling himself a programmer: the confidence that with effort and Google he could solve any business programming problem in reasonable time. He argues the agentic feeling is exactly that on steroids — agents amplify the search-triage-solve loop.
A senior dev's crisp take on how agents change problem-solving confidence, not just code-writing.
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