Not who you asked, and I don’t mean this to sound pompous. I don’t believe (there’s probably some but go with me for a minute) there’s any software task I couldn’t do, given enough time to research the domain and understand the problem space.
When folks say they couldn’t do it before, it doesn’t mean they aren’t mentally capable to do the task, it’s the time or speed constraints that are in play. What coding agents do help you close that gap. It doesn’t make you an expert in the field, but as an example it can help you understand the domain, nomenclature, acronyms that you would have had to research.
This doesn’t invalidate your ability to judge a solution as good or bad. It also doesn’t prevent the agent from using code you don’t understand either, so you still have to figure things out but it can help speed some of those up.
Not who you asked, and I don’t mean this to sound pompous. I don’t believe (there’s probably some but go with me for a minute) there’s any software task I couldn’t do, given enough time to research the domain and understand the problem space.
When folks say they couldn’t do it before, it doesn’t mean they aren’t mentally capable to do the task, it’s the time or speed constraints that are in play. What coding agents do help you close that gap. It doesn’t make you an expert in the field, but as an example it can help you understand the domain, nomenclature, acronyms that you would have had to research.
This doesn’t invalidate your ability to judge a solution as good or bad. It also doesn’t prevent the agent from using code you don’t understand either, so you still have to figure things out but it can help speed some of those up.