You cannot responsibly automate what you cannot do manually. AI agents speed up work for people who already know how to do it. They do not replace the need to learn the work in the first place.
When AI handles implementation, the human job shifts from doing the work to understanding the work. Speed without understanding is just technical debt with better commit messages.
I keep noticing people talk about AI like it’s a wave that’s about to hit them. “Will it take my job?” “How do we adopt it fast enough?” “How do we…