There is a purely strategic reason for keeping some hand code skills exercised. If you outsource the coding away completely you become dependent on entities that can pull the plug on you. Not arguing it's the right choice to rein in the agentic coding just that there is some rationale for doing so
I blame the hidden context on the tools/subagents. One recent example.. codex can just look in the code for Db schema but continually tries to request permission for a live db query
Also a codex user but for me brevity is not it's strong suit. I basically have to give it bigger tasks than I am used to to warrant the time it takes to complete. I feel whatever context the tooling adds can also be problematic
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