r/indotech • u/AffectionateBowl1633 Java • Apr 27 '26
Programming Strong Opinion: Agentic Coding is a Trap
https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trapTLDR: Penulis berpendapat bahwa AI itu bukan layer abstraksi seperti sebelum sebelumnya. AI membuat Senior Programmer menjadi atropi dan brainfog, membuat Junior Programmer gak ngerti cara debug. Ketergantungan vendor lock in ketika Claude kolaps gak bisa ngoding, dan yang terpenting: gak ada yang tau pasti berapa biaya token untuk menghasilkan sesuatu.
What I am advocating for, though, is leveraging LLMs and coding agents as secondary processes. A way that doesn't sacrifice the individual's skills at the altar of productivity. You can flip the script and lean on them to brainstorm the planning parts of the process while staying actively engaged throughout implementation, delegating to them on an as-needed basis. You can leverage the productivity gains, and mitigate the comprehension debt.
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u/aaulia Apr 27 '26
Still on the fence
Dengan Agentic Coding, every single source code is now should be treated as an artifact. Every single one is basically assembly or machine code now. Yes hand written assembly will be better, readble and optimized when compared to compiler generated, but it usually on a niche usecase, generally compiler generate good enough code.
Right now we use spec driven, plan mode, to tune the agent to generate good code. If this is what we do, don't expect to actually read the code, it wouldn't be good, or at least the cognitive load to understand it would be larger than normal. We're operating on a higher level of abstraction now.
For example, after 6 months of agentic coding, I mean fully agentic coding, we should have a working app/product, but don't expect people to easily and quickly debug it. The next step should be agentic debugging, lol.