This will sound arrogant, but I can't shake the impression that agent programming is most appealing to amateurs, where the kind of software they build is really just glorified UIs and data plumbing.

I work on game engines which do some pretty heavy lifting, and I'd be loath to let these agents write the code for me.

They'd simply screw too much of it up and create a mess that I'm going to have to go through by hand later anyway, not just to ensure correctness but also performance.

I want to know what the code is doing, I want control over the fine details, and I want to have as much of the codebase within my mental understanding as possible.

Not saying they're not useful - obviously they are - just that something smells fishy about the success stories.