JUST caught this interview with andi gutmans from the
agentic data cloud team at google. since he basically co-created php, his perspective on moving from old school coding to managing agents is
pretty wild . he argues that we aren't actually escaping our old workflows but rather evolving them into a new era of judgment and review.
it sounds like the core logic remains, just the scale changes . it makes me wonder if we are even building something new or just
automating the same old patterns on steroids. anyone else feeling like
agentic workflows are more about refined oversight than pure innovation?
more here:
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/20/rethinking-judgment-review-andi-gutmans/