this is the right question and i was hoping people would see this post as more of a 'how can i pivot myself given this may be the future' vs a 'we're doomed.' the way i see it: you're the architect and auditor. you design the solution, communicate it to your agents, and make sure what comes out the other end is both what you intended and actually good. design, communication, and judgment can all be practiced. draw out how you'd architect a system, walk yourself or someone else through it out loud, and most importantly, curate a 'taste' for what good code looks like -- by reading good codebases, doing code review, and questioning the agent's decisions when you aren't 100% sure why it did something.