That everybody seems to love building these things while people like you harbor deep skepticism about them is a reason to get your hands dirty with an agent, because the cost of doing that is 30-45 minutes of your time, and doing so will arm you with an understanding you can use to make better arguments against them.
For the problem domains I care about at the moment, I'm quite bullish about agents. I think they're going to be huge wins for vulnerability analysis and for operations/SRE work (not actually turning dials, but in making telemetry more interpretable). There are lots of domains where I'm less confident in them. But you could reasonably call me an optimist.
But the point of the article is that its arguments work both ways.
For the problem domains I care about at the moment, I'm quite bullish about agents. I think they're going to be huge wins for vulnerability analysis and for operations/SRE work (not actually turning dials, but in making telemetry more interpretable). There are lots of domains where I'm less confident in them. But you could reasonably call me an optimist.
But the point of the article is that its arguments work both ways.