There's a version of this future everyone is quietly chasing. The agent drives, fully, and you just watch. You hand it the repo, you hand it the goal, and you go get coffee. Total delegation.
Honestly, it's the biggest trap in the whole thing.
Not because the agent can't do the work. It usually can. The trap springs later, at the exact moment it can't. Something breaks. The build is red, the behavior is wrong, and the model is confidently going in circles. Now it's your problem. And if you never understood what it built, you're not debugging anything. You're digging through a stranger's code with no map and no memory of how it got there.
Think about how a junior developer actually works. They take the task, they run at it, and when they hit a wall they can't get over, they escalate. To you. That's the deal. You're the floor they land on.
So here's the uncomfortable question. When the agent escalates, and it will, who is your floor?
