The traditional developer experience is built around dashboards, documentation, and manual workflows -- the developer is the executor. In an agentic paradigm, the developer becomes the architect: defining intent, reviewing outcomes, and steering autonomous agents that do the building. Three forces make this inevitable:
- Context windows are now large enough to hold entire subsystems, making multi-file reasoning feasible.
- Tool-use and function-calling have matured -- models can reliably invoke external APIs, run terminals, edit files, and iterate against feedback loops (tests, linters, type-checkers).
- The cost curve is collapsing -- separating planning (expensive, high-intelligence model) from execution (fast, cheap model) makes agentic workflows economically viable at scale.