Why Senior Engineers Are Abandoning AI Coding: The Hidden Dangers of Agentic Programming

Two Years of Vibecoding: Why I Returned to Writing Code by Hand Core Question: After relying heavily on AI-assisted coding (Agentic Coding) for a long period, why do senior engineers ultimately decide to return to writing code manually? In the realm of software development, the journey most people share with AI coding follows a strikingly similar script. Initially, you tentatively assign it a simple task. The results impress you. Emboldened, you give it a massive task. The results leave you even more stunned. This instant gratification easily fosters an illusion that the barriers to programming have been leveled. Immediately following …