Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025
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- #Productivity Myths
- #Developer Evolution
- #AI in Software Development
- Developers are evolving from AI skeptics to AI strategists, reshaping software development.
- AI tools are creating a learning crisis among junior developers, who may lack deep understanding of code.
- Claims of 10x productivity gains from AI are exaggerated; real improvements are modest and context-specific.
- AI could end platform monopolies by making custom, on-demand applications cheap to develop.
- Proliferation of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers may degrade AI performance by consuming valuable context window space.