Agentic programming workflow aka 'no human generated code' is here

For last few weeks I had a strong intuition that coding as an activity is gone. It no longer makes sense to write code ourselves. Just like it does not make sense to build many things by hand today, we rather steer/invent/improve machines that do it. I had two encounters recently where small development teams on fully agentic programming workflows (meaning agents code, people oversee) proved it - one was a still undercover project, the other https://github.com/open-mercato/. And of course the mighty openai just dropped an article on how they built codex and its the same: https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/. I am surprised that so few teams have caught up to this workflow, based on my 2 discussions and comparison with other ‘standard’ teams the productivity gains are 3-4x. And token costs if choosing models or being smart with Opus 4.6 are below 1k$/dev. A no-brainer. Not to mention a more consistent, maintainable code-base, and no key-man risk!

What still makes sense:

• Talk with people, businesses, what are the pains, challenges, needs, wants
• Translate it into ideas for tools, products, apps, integrations
• Build, maintain, evolve scaffolding for agents to build these.
• Guide the agents in building
• Test edge cases
• Market, promote, preach your ideas

However, as we near to OpenClaw/ClawdBot/Moltbot enterprise ready solutions/approaches even this might disappear. What is left then for us humans? I think just 2 things:

• physical labor (these were my first jobs still in colleage and high school) until we have autonomous robots, or hardware/atom-related projects (aka Elon’s “Macrohard”;))
• pursuing hobbies, passions and cultivating relationships.

Is it far away, I don’t think so, maybe couple of years. I agree with Matt here https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403.