I always hated SEO because it was not an exact science - like programming was.
Too bad we've now managed to turn programming into the same annoying guesswork.
I don't really think it is turning into a guesswork. A lot of people wrote bad code before by pasting things from the internet they didn't understand. I think some people are using LLMs the same way, but it does not mean that programming has changed. But I do think that code quality is being neglected nowadays.
If you want to feel like you're using a programming language when orchestrating agents, check out https://github.com/barnum-circus/barnum