Every time this subject comes up, there are a bunch of takes along the lines of "would you work on a codebase maintained by agents? they'll mess up the code". And I'm asking myself where these people work, because in 20+ years I've yet to see that pristine state of a project that keeps being pristine after the honeymoon greenfield phase, and 50+ people start working on it. Every project devolves in time, old stuff gets patched in a hurry, someone tries to make it better, learns why certain things were done a certain way, hits some undocumented client needs handled by some arcane combination of code + external systems, and so on. If anything, keeping track of what does what in a project is a task where agents can shine, if only in "ask" mode so you can figure out things quicker. Not to mention onboarding and stuff for new team members.
Entropy is real and with offshore contractors you don't need agents to blame for it