The Cost of Speed

The Practices We&rsquo;re Throwing Away — They Matter Agentic coding has made writing software close to free. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI — these tools generate prototypes, migrations, refactors, and tests at a pace that would have seemed absurd two years ago. Acceleration is real. But a strange asymmetry has developed in the public conversation. For a certain class of builder, it changed…