Things I Think I Think... about Coding Agents and IDEs

This is another one of those "old developer guy" posts, because approximately a quarter-century ago, a new kind of tool was emerging in the developer ecosphere that generated a similar kind of "angst" to what we're seeing today, and that's the low and humble "wizard". Remember those? These were the step-by-step dialogs that asked a series of questions of the developer who'd fired up a new project,…