Or maybe not. Right now, success with agentic coding requires a certain level of skill. If the agent generates bad code or follows poor practices, it takes a certain amount of expertise to recognize that. It is not far-fetched, however, to imagine the agent becoming so good at coding that expertise will no longer be required.
When high-level languages first required compilers, many thought no machine could write better assembly language than humans. But that concern was put to rest long ago. It’s not unreasonable to think that AI will eventually “compile” your spoken words better than you ever could. Someday, we won’t even look at the code that our AI agent produces. We’ll take it for granted, just as we do the assembly code in our software today.
So maybe the notion of needing special skills to develop software will go away all together. Perhaps coding agents will become so good that anyone with an idea can build an app or a website, all by just talking about it, describing what they want, seeing the results, and iterating. The day is coming when anyone with an idea and a little time can build anything.
