Or C, agentic coders who have been doing this for 20+ years (software engineering) know what they're doing?

Also, when people say 'read the code' do they really mean go line by line, or review the pseudo code? Meaning, read the high level architecture/data flow.

Because IMO the code matters very little if you have the proper testing environment and guardrails, the architecture always matters.

Also there is also category C: they are not developers and they don't care about the code at all, but also not really much about the product. They just want to tick the boxes.

They blindly accept that LLMs "take time" after the slop grows because they're running several agents at the same time, so they can still claim to be productive.

Does it move the needle, business wise? Not really. But a lot of businesses are "optimising" for maximum token usage and for how many tasks one person can do, not for business value. Is it really surprising?