Full Circle: How AI Agents Are Bringing Back the Age of the Designer

In the 1980s, my mother and I represented two different worlds of software development, divided not just by the tasks we performed, but by the very philosophy of how code should come into being. She was a database developer for a corporate giant, practicing a meticulous craft known as Top-Down design. She and her team would spend weeks, sometimes months, living in the realm of diagrams,