HN Post Asks How Developers Can Slow or Halt Reliance on Agentic AI Coding

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A Hacker News user has posted a question to the community about the rapid spread of agentic AI coding tools. The poster notes a growing number of recent threads in which software developers express anxiety about how fast these tools are advancing. They argue that increasing dependence on such tools is accelerating the potential decline of the software engineering profession. The post asks whether developers can collectively slow this trend, and it invites suggestions, including whether a complete break from the tools is possible.

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