You can assess an engineer’s agentic adoption by asking a very simple question: Do you still write code manually? 👨💻
If the answer is a straight no: good adoption. ✅ Anything else: no adoption.
A person needs to let go of writing code manually and learn how to make everything safe, reliable, and much faster agentically. 🤖 The switch is almost like a toggle, but one that takes a bit of a leap of faith.
So far, I’ve encountered the following concerns when talking about making that leap:
- 😨 Am I going to lose my job? Are all of us?
- 🎛️ How do I stay in control?
- 👀 How can I review all the code the agent writes?
- 🔐 Is this safe?
- 💥 This company just went bankrupt because of AI.
Talking through all these concerns openly is a good start, and leading by example helps people make the leap. 🚀