this is … odd. the whole problem with agentic code is that people wind up with hard to debug redundancies, security holes, deleted databases…

this is … odd. the whole problem with agentic code is that people wind up with hard to debug redundancies, security holes, deleted databases, etc., which is exactly why you need roadmaps and code reviews, with AI-written code. I am with @Grady_Booch on this one (and almost everything else). I don’t doubt that we will have more code written cheaper than ever, but a lot of it is going to be a mess unless there is serious oversight. (Companies like Amazon have already seen this.) For 50 years, software engineering ran on code rationing. Writing code was expensive, so we rationed it carefully through roadmaps, RFCs, prioritization meetings, and scope reviews. This created a role: the No Engineer. No, that won't scale. No, we don't have bandwidth. No, that'…

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-04-30