> An experienced engineer using modern AI tools can move at a pace that would have been unimaginable five years ago.

I dunno sometimes I think I should have sticked with a simpler solution coded by hand with more tradeoffs, than trying doing more and spend days back and forth in an endless feedback loop. Or fighting back the Agent that is more than happy to over produce.

IMO the problem is not the single developer using more agentic tooling, it's the whole work chain, who reviews your changes use agentic tooling assistance and over produce a lot of feedback and you're back with the clanker making many decisions that just drains you at the end of the day. I miss the times where we released many more simple things sith many more tradeoffs and business decisions