"Offloading all coding" is perhaps a misleading expression. Those who say they no longer write code are often describing a change in what kind of work they do, not that they've stopped writing code entirely. They spend more time on technical specification, architectural decisions, considering differences, and figuring out when the model misinterprets intent—and less time on actual code typing. Your brownfield instinc…
I agree with this completely. Since coding agents came along, I stay completely on the architectural, requirements level and don’t look at code at all. I have damn good markdown files and I have coding agents transcribe what they are doing and decisions I made.
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