It almost feels like ages ago when the promise of AI was to be a sponge of knowledge, to help us dig in quicker and speed up the search process of looking up implementations on Google / Stackoverflow because the expectation was that we authored code and demonstrate it to our peers it was correct as the role of an earnest code contributor.

You cannot overstate how disruptive agentic powered development has had on the startup scene. There is clearly an embrace or loosening of that expectation which is upending the profession and also paradoxically giving superpowers to us who have been in the business a long time.

It’s hard to know where this is all going as we are being challenged by this transformative, powerful, yet problematic technology every day at work.