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I was pairing with a dev who commented on the fact that I always resolved merge conflicts by hand versus using a UI. I joked that it's because I'm a control freak and without missing a beat responded "Yup." 😅 Let me tell you about my experiences with agentic coding these last 3 months...

Those two senior level ICs both retired at the same time. They were an all knowing, doing a lot of "hidden" work to keep things going and it was a complete silo. When I applied for the role, I missed the part about it being an AI "augmented" role. I noticed an hour before first the interview.

At this point I had used LLMs to explore implementation ideas at a small scale. My first attempt implementing Ackermann steering for a video game. It was a single function that I reviewed and integrated into the game. It worked.

Play testing was instant so having hands on the wheel was easy. But this was a well known algorithm. No heavy lifting here at all but that work flow of a tiny piece, rigorously reviewed and tested felt ok to me. Ok enough to see there might be use here.