The Agentic Coding Trap: Why the Productivity Promise Is Burning Developers Out

The pace of software development has undergone unprecedented compression. What until recently was simply &ldquo;programming&rdquo; is now called trad coding (traditional coding), a process that required writing line by line, respecting the natural flow of problem-solving and the time the brain needs to process logic. Today, that flow has been run over by the rise of AI agents.