Comment by jagraff

I don't think "to use prompts to autogenerate text that is source code" is a complete description of how agentic programming works. A very important part of the process is that an agent will not just write code, but also explore documentation, write tests, run those tests, and even do fairly complex integration testing up to and including (for UI based work) firing up a UI and visually confirming features work as intended. Agentic software engineering can be quite powerful properly applied.