Fearless, Not Reckless: What Agentic Coding Gives — and What It Demands

At the start of 2026, my working day looked roughly as it had done for the past couple of decades. I would open my IDE in the morning, and close it in the evening, and in between I would write code by typing it into a window designed for that purpose. Carefully and diligently, always trying to envisage myself as a journeyman stonecutter whose work would ultimately be part of some great cathedral…