GoKawiilEssay Argues Engineers Still Outperform Peers Despite AI Agent Takeover of Coding
A software engineer writes that AI agents now handle most coding, debugging, documentation, and even architecture work, leaving engineers mainly coordinating multiple agents so they don't block each other. Using a proof-by-contradiction argument, the author notes that if humans added no value, skilled and average engineers would produce similar results with the same models and tools — but the gap between them persists, and top performers have become even more productive.