Analogy time!

Anyone can do work on their own car. It's not especially hard.

But a professional working on their own car knows tricks and has tools / ways of working that a regular person doesn't have access to.

You can tell the difference in the result if you know where to look.

Sometimes it matters: the way you change some components matters - and while you're there with half the engine bay cleared, you can fix a few other things that usually fail in this specific model.

Sometimes it doesn't: oil change is hard to fuck up, but not impossible.

The the things I've made with agents aren't hard to do for anyone, but I can claim that I can pick up any of my projects 6 months from now and confidently add features without worrying about stuff breaking or the agent doing crazy crap - because I build the limits into my projects by default.

People are afraid to do work on cars (and mains wiring, and plumbing) because even though the work is relatively simple the consequences for fucking up are so severe (severe damage, injury, death, etc). That's most of the reason they pay someone else to do it.

For the vast majority of software that isn't the case at all.

!RemindMe 6 months