Spot on. This is excellent analysis.

I was also bothered by this:

    > Until recently, I was rather skeptical of agentic code. February 2026, however, has been a sort of inflection point even stubborn developers like myself can’t ignore.

"February 2026" is just way to specific. It feels like a PR/marketing team wrote it. It acts like a jump scare in the post for any normie programmer.