What Do You Still Need to Know When Agents Do the Work?

via Assaf 🌴 (@assaf@mas.to): > This is where our industry is headed: Owning a software system will depend a lot less on having written it (or similar systems) by hand; instead, what will become most important is knowing just enough to know when something is wrong, and being willing and able to dive as deep as needed, when needed.

Adrian Quiroga uses a SonarQube complexity failure on agent-written code as a jumping-off point for a bigger question: what do you still need to know when agents write most of the code? His answer — fundamentals and breadth to recognize when something’s wrong, plus the ability to dive deep on demand — feels like the right frame for how ownership of software is shifting.

What Do You Still Need to Know When Agents Do the Work?