A grounded take on agentic coding for production environments
I want to share my very recent experience with agentic coding. Primarily because I was (finally) genuinely impressed by the productivity gains it unlocked. But also because I'm fed up with posts on X claiming that you can now build absolutely anything in no time, with almost no prior domain knowledge or programming experience. While that might be true to some extent for prototyping or throwaway apps you can one-shot, this is not what I'm seeing in real production systems.
The amount of engineering effort, domain knowledge in general, and familiarity with a project's codebase in particular now likely matter more than ever. Agents generate code extremely fast, and that can be both a blessing and a curse for long-term maintainability and extensibility.
