Why Good Developers Are So Wary of Agentic Development
torutofu · hn · 2026-10-29
An article on martinfowler.com explores why experienced, high-performing developers tend to be the most wary of agentic development — examining their concerns around code ownership, review costs, and skill atrophy, and how teams should rationally position AI agents in engineering workflows.
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