I formed that impression from:my own personal experiences Every time I use agentic coding tools I'm consistently unimpressed with the quality of the results. This was a huge surprise to me at first because I expected agentic coding to confer an unfair advantage but … nope! I don't believe agentic coding is a lost cause, but I do believe agentic coding in its present incarnation is doing more harm than good to software development. Both studies and developer testimonials show that agentic coding breaks flow and keeps developers in an idle/interruptible holding pattern more than ordinary coding. This is one of the cases where the AI can reduce human review labor (most agentic coding tools create more human review labor).