This text is 100% handmade, like the code I am writing...
Recent developments in the AI realm made me think a lot about my next moves in order to not fall behind. The pace is so fast that I am very picky about what to do, because I cannot waste much of my time learning new things that I might not finally use in my daily workflow.
I have to admit, that I ever was a late adopter. I am consciously waiting for hypes being over (or becoming a real thing) and watching technology to proof itself, before fully committing to it and throwing my money at it. I am not the type who buys the next new shiny thing, plays with it for a week and then throws it away if it does not serve the purpose I expected it to.
However, the situation is different now. While I am watching AI coding tools and agents to proof themselves to become a serious help in software engineering, everybody else is doing it already, despite all the downsides. I am still hesitating to ship code that I am not fully aware of, because the output of coding tools and agents totally exceeds my capabilities to review. Output speed triples but my QA seems to slow down by 10x.
At that point I am now standing in some kind of void, frozen from this situation and I cannot move in any direction. On the one hand, manual programming feels wrong in 2026 (damn, it used to be fun!). It feels like making fire with stones while everybody else uses a blow torch. At the same time I am hesitating to go all in on agentic coding as I am watching people burn their entire house, because they left the blow torch doing its work...
Is this just my perception or is this a real thing? Am I the only one who is not seeing a clear direction where to move next?
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