--- title: Agentic Development: Honing the Craft is the Fun Part description: An engineer argues that AI coding agents remove typing, not the craft of software design. He now spends most of his time on domain modeling, API contracts, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-development-honing-the-craft-is-the-fun-part-9snzixng7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agentic Development: Honing the Craft is the Fun Part | daily.dev og:description: An engineer argues that AI coding agents remove typing, not the craft of software design. He now spends most of his time on domain modeling, API contracts, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-development-honing-the-craft-is-the-fun-part-9snzixng7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9SNzixNG7.png og:image:alt: Agentic Development: Honing the Craft is the Fun Part og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agentic Development: Honing the Craft is the Fun Part **[Atomic Spin](https://daily.dev/sources/atomicobject)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An engineer argues that AI coding agents remove typing, not the craft of software design. He now spends most of his time on domain modeling, API contracts, and database structure, letting an agent implement the details. In one example, after a couple of days designing a Power BI report builder, an agent built it test-first from invariant-named integration tests, producing a 30,000-line full-stack app by the next day. He still finds steering multiple work streams more tiring than writing one function well. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does working with an AI coding agent change what a developer spends their day doing? Instead of spending most of the day typing out implementation, a developer using an AI agent spends the bulk of time on design: domain modeling, API contracts, and database structure. One example involved two days of design work followed by an agent building a fully functional 30,000-line full-stack application test-first from integration tests, finished by the next day. _Developers rethinking their daily workflow around AI agents can follow similar first-hand accounts on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Agentic AI in Software Development: From Coding to Orchestration](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-in-software-development-from-coding-to-orchestration-bl6akhr3q) · Syncfusion · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Agentic Engineering](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-engineering-vu5lypi1u) · Addy Osmani · 382 upvotes · 12 comments - [Agentic Coding Is a Trap](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-coding-is-a-trap-hanolpuva) · Khalil Stemmler · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Agentic Development: We Handed Off the Code, Not the Job](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-development-we-handed-off-the-code-not-the-job-2ou02tzdx) · Atomic Spin · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Agentic Development: Time to Shift the Focus](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-development-time-to-shift-the-focus-6zpwfmcsk) · Auth0 · 10 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#tdd](https://daily.dev/tags/tdd) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-development-honing-the-craft-is-the-fun-part-9snzixng7) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Agentic Development: Honing the Craft is the Fun Part","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-development-honing-the-craft-is-the-fun-part-9snzixng7","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-development-honing-the-craft-is-the-fun-part-9snzixng7"},"datePublished":"2026-10-25T12:03:50.341Z","dateModified":"2026-10-25T12:04:15.561Z","description":"An engineer argues that AI coding agents remove typing, not the craft of software design. 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