Comment by dkubb

I can totally understand where you are coming from with this comment. It does feel a bit frustrating that people are rediscovering things that were written in books 30/40/50 years ago.

However, I think this is awesome for the industry. People are rediscovering basic things, but if they didn't know about the existing literature this is a perfect opportunity to refer them to it. And if they were aware, but maybe not practicing it, this is a great time for the ideas to be reinforced.

A lot of people, myself included, never really understand which practices are important or not until we were forced to work on a system that was most definitely not written with any good practices in mind.

My current view of agentic coding is that it's forcing an entire generation of devs to learn software project management or drowning under the mountain of debt an LLM can produce. Previously it took much longer to feel the weight of bad decisions in a project but an LLM allows you to speed-run this process in a few weeks or months.