Taste Is the Next Frontier of Agentic Engineering
Programming is becoming less important. Code review is becoming less important too. Coding agents can write code, find bugs, run tests, and change large codebases. Work that took days can now take minutes.
But something strange is happening.
Agents can write most of the code, yet people still spend much of their time deciding what the agents should do. A person gives an agent a task, examines the result, and decides what to do next. The agent can complete many steps without help. But when a decision can change the direction of a project, the person often takes control again.