Comment by jake-coworker

I generally agree - I think anyone who's seriously experimented with agentic coding has encountered both:

1 - Surprising success when an agent can build on top of established patterns & abstractions

2 - A deep hole of "make it work" when an LLM digs a whole it can't get out of, and fails to anticipate edge cases/discover hidden behavior.

The same things that make it easier for humans to contribute code make it easier for LLMs to contribute code.