i always found it to be easier to write code myself than to direct a junior developer.

Me, too. But that doesn't mean I'm a great developer, just a shitty manager.

Perhaps but at least when you are directing a junior developer, even if badly, you'll eventually get a non-junior developer on the other side. With an AI agent, you'll get ... what?

	▲	CamperBob2 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		With current models, you're right, there will be nothing to show for the effort except the code itself. I suspect that will change sooner or later. Models will be cultivated over time the way we cultivate full-time employees now, with an acquired awareness of what they're building, new skills picked up in the process, and insight into how the larger system works.