> I always come back to see shit that I have opinions about and need to polish

Definitely but can't the factory analogy still apply here?

We're now workers on a factory assembly line.

The assembly line still needs people to design and build machines, press buttons to operate machines, verify widgets are correct for their stage of assembly, and verify the final product is correct and ready to leave the assembly line.

Importantly it needs people that spot defects and send things back, and press the "big red button" if something is grossly wrong with the whole process.

The goal is to make this as efficient as possible working with our agents.

I don't think the agentic coding tools are anywhere close to making this awesome yet, but at the same time the best practices of "dev ops" need to be updated to involve agents.

Agree with you, overall -- and it's worthwhile to learn how to setup factories at various scales of problems, and one will always be in a situation where you need to decide whether you care about a particular part of the process, or can be okay with averages.

I'm only saying that that I don't think one can automate the whole thing. After all, agents don't actually possess ... agency -- they require us to breath live into them. So at some part of the stack, there has to be a human, with an opinion, thinking about what they want.

Also: I don't aspire to be a worker, I aspire to seize the means of production.