Agentic AI is a fascinating mirror. It can code as well as the user who drives it. If that user is a junior engineer, now you have a faster junior engineer. If the user is a staff engineer, now you have a faster staff engineer.
What agentic AI doesn’t do is magically convert a junior engineer into a staff engineer, because the user driving it still needs enough experience to know what a good solution looks like.
A staff engineer in the US at a large company a The Pragmatic Engineer.