Good stuff. I share this view fully. I've been working on a project, which I am happy I had no agentic help on for the first year. When you lay the architectural foundation you need to start with a vision, derive constraints and then map a solution to all of them. This takes a level of intentionality that agents don't have. Probabilistic models will work against anything that is unconventional, so they tend to favor low-value solutions that have already been seen.

Wrote up the longer version of my journey on that project here:

https://ljtn.github.io/epiq/blog/on-the-soft-wet-fabric-of-a...