SMRTR ProgrammingMay 12, 2026lobste.rs

Agentic Coding is a Trap

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Spec Driven Development promises that AI agents handle all the code while developers just orchestrate, but this workflow is quietly eroding the very skills needed to oversee it. Studies show debugging skills dropping 47%, junior developers losing learning opportunities, and entire teams grinding to a halt during Claude outages. The author argues for keeping AI as a secondary tool, not the primary driver.

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