The Practices We’re Throwing Away — They Matter Agentic coding has made writing software close to free. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI — these tools generate prototypes, migrations, refactors, and tests at a pace that would have seemed absurd two years ago. Acceleration is real. But a strange asymmetry has developed in the public conversation. For a certain class of builder, it changed everything: the solo developer, the founder racing to validate an idea, the engineer building a personal tool over a weekend. In those environments, the cost of failure is bounded. A bug means annoyance, not a regulatory incident. A bad abstraction means refactoring next week, not a 3 AM escalation across three continents.
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