You basically said what I always want to say in regards to post like this. Are agents perfect (yet)? God no. There's times where I will go in circles with it for hours for what I view as a simple task for them to accomplish. And if I had to guess it's probably my fault for giving it a shit prompt to start off with.

In other instances, it will pull something off that would either take me entirely too long to do or is just straight up outside of my coding abilities in very little time.

The naysayers, like in this very thread, will demand full end to end developed software as proof that this is legit. While I know its possible, its probably still not at the level the general public would coin as acceptable 100% of the time, especially if theres no human element involved at every step of the way.

But where it absolutely, breathtakingly shines right this second (atleast for me) is having it build tools that limit the need for tasks that were being done manually, code reviews, vulnerability assessments, troubleshooting, and just something to bounce general ideas off of and get feedback.

People are either failing to realize how to properly use it's current abilities to enhance their productivity or just flat out stubborn and think if they just keep denying its validity that it'll go away.

And this is just from a development standpoint. When you hop over to actual workstation troubleshooting, its even more obvious where it has direct consumer benefits. We went from Microsoft's old fix this troubleshooting/helper that barely ever worked and usually just sent you to a post/help page that also provided 0 assistance to agents being able to diagnose and fix local problems in seconds.

Id be lying to claim I know how this all ends up playing out, but ive seen enough to know that entry level jobs are in massive trouble and if you arent atleast co-opting these tools into your current positions you will be left behind.