I have had an interesting experience just recently.

I hired back on at a company I used to work at and found they had contracted work to another former employee who was handed the code from a rest api I had written and a web app that used it. The task was to write an android app that interacted with the api.

He ran it through an agentic coding assistant and got out api scaffolding and basic UI.

Looking it over, I couldn't shake the feeling I was looking at my code, just ported to kotlin. I was seeing my idiosyncrasies everywhere. It was kind of surreal.

I was familiar with the dev's work who did it and it was nothing like his prior work, but it's been years since I have seen him, so who knows.

I couldn't help but admit it was a good foundation to start building on.

I told the pm they were likely overpaying significantly for an agentic coding assistant and only getting access to it for a few hours a month. This same organization recoiled in terror when I pointed out the cost of a claude code subscription once.