> I’d say “push all your innovation tokens into agents” is probably a good move
Or better yet, just don't use agents, deliver something better with all the stability and boringness that you have. There's never been a better time than now to produce software that actually seems to work and march along steadily; your competitors are all flailing wildly like morons.
That's where the human factor comes in though: boring tech makes for boring work makes for bored people, and bored people quit (or worse, introduce complexity for the sake of it).
LLMs are better at churning out boring stuff, and you can see a lot of bored people perk up in the age of AI - they can now fire up half a dozen agents so they can express their ideas and see them made reality, instead of leaving their ideas to be ideas because implementing them is boring.
I see what you're saying, but making things less boring by essentially gambling on the implementation of it is a pretty strange thing to do, in my opinion.
Sure, some people legitimately work on things that middle schoolers can put together, and for those things I suppose using LLMs as a way of just getting them done is a less risky prospect. For those cases I don't really see the point of tossing it over the hedge to LLMs because what exactly are you doing beyond that? These types of projects have almost nothing to actually do beyond the grunt work of wiring together MVC stuff.
It's not as if you're going to now have time for interesting things, as they tend to not exist at all in those types of projects, and they're rarely important or big enough to warrant much thought in terms of distributed systems design and so on.
I guess I can see a situation where someone instead finds time to work on actually interesting side projects because they've basically stopped doing their work manually because it's not something worth doing manually. Personally I don't think I could stand that type of situation because it would feel bad on a moral level as well as on a personal stimulation level.