Readit NewsInteresting times ahead.
All code interactions all happen through agents.
I suppose the question is if the agents only produce Swiss cheese solutions at scale and there's no way to fill in those gaps (at scale). Then yeah fully agentic coding is probably a pipe dream.
On the other hand if you can stand up a code generation machine where it's watts + Gpus + time => software products. Then well... It's only a matter of time until app stores entirely disappear or get really weird. It's hard to fathom the change that's coming to our profession in this world.
This chaps will continue until something moderately productive and easily adoptable comes out. FOMO will strike all of us from time to time. Some of us will even try out the latest and greatest and see if it sticks.
Some companies will mandate arbitrary code generation standards because "it's the basis of their success", it will polarize their talent pool. Later, it will be impossible to determine if they were (not) successful "inspite of" or "because of" such wild decisions.
But most importantly there is no reason why that research has to be paid for by the government, out of taxpayer funds. The research will still be done, but more of the money will come from the corporations who benefit the most from it.