Why agentic coding is permanent
Greg Sadetsky
Jane Doe builds developer tools. We talk about why agentic coding isn’t a productivity tool but a different way of thinking about software construction, where the bottleneck moved (review), and what she got wrong about TDD this year.
Chapters
- Cold open
- What changed in the last six months
- Where LLMs still fail
- Hiring and juniors
From this episode
"The bottleneck moved to review."
"I changed my mind about TDD this year."
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▸ Transcript
So the part I keep coming back to is that this isn’t a productivity tool we’re using. It’s a different way of thinking about what software construction actually is — when you can describe a change in plain language and get a working version back in seconds, the bottleneck moves.Right, and I think the thing people miss is that the bottleneck moves to review. The hard part isn’t writing it anymore — it’s deciding which of the three versions the model produced is actually the one you want to live with.