I think you misunderstood what the phrase actually means. You can only successfully manage or outsource a process once you understand it well enough to explain it. Therefore, most of the people doing agentic engineering are not following this Perlisim.

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dtagames 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh, that's exactly what I meant, except its corollary. People who do understand how software works should absolutely be having agents code it. And we do.

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skydhash 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> People who do understand how software works should absolutely be having agents code it.

I don’t think there’s such people.

Either you’re writing a software for the first time and so the premise is not true. Or you’re writing it a second time and what would be the point? Just reuse the code you already have.

	▲	dtagames 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are lots of people who understand how software works, including the fact that every line of code is new or else you wouldn't need to write it. Personally, I love "philosophy of software" questions like these, especially in the AI era. I write quite a bit about this on Medium: https://medium.com/@mimixco