While I greatly dislike the hype and don't believe most of what people say is real or that whatever they're building is just bullshi, I can definitely see the improvement of productivity, specially when working with agents.
I think the problem is that people:
* see the hype;
* try to replicate the hype;
* it fails miserably;
* they throw everything away;
I'm on call this week on my job, one of the issues was adding a quick validation (verifying the length of a thing was exactly 15). I could have sat and done that but I just spun an agent, told it where it was, told it how to add the change (we always add feature flags to do that), read the code, prompted it to fix a thing and boom, PR is ready. I wrote 3 paragraphs, didn't have to sit and wait for CI or any of the other bullshit to get it done, focused on more important stuff but still got the fix out.
Don't believe the hype but also don't completely discount the tools, they are incredible help and while they will not boost your productivity by 500%, they're amazing.
I think the problem is that people:
* see the hype;
* try to replicate the hype;
* it fails miserably;
* they throw everything away;
I'm on call this week on my job, one of the issues was adding a quick validation (verifying the length of a thing was exactly 15). I could have sat and done that but I just spun an agent, told it where it was, told it how to add the change (we always add feature flags to do that), read the code, prompted it to fix a thing and boom, PR is ready. I wrote 3 paragraphs, didn't have to sit and wait for CI or any of the other bullshit to get it done, focused on more important stuff but still got the fix out.
Don't believe the hype but also don't completely discount the tools, they are incredible help and while they will not boost your productivity by 500%, they're amazing.