First, switch to Codex. Then, consider using the context7 mcp server to let agents automatically fetch the latest documentation.
Debugging is not so different than debugging code written by someone else. It’s a skill you can practice.
By the way, agents are also good at debugging.
Agents: harder, slower and more expensive than just doing it yourself.
First plane didn't have cockpit, and windows, could fly only hundreds of meters, and looked more like a clothes dryer than a plane. Someone could call it inefficient (and really it wasn't efficient). It was easy to call it dangerous. But as we can see, planes evolved since then. When the first radio was invented there was no radio station to listen. When the steam train was invented it was crazy expensive and there was no government which has enough money to build all the railroads we have today
All of these technologies were modified by talented people, some of them were inventors, others later adopters. But they changed how this technologies work, and what goods they brought to us
AI is too young technology to tell if it fail or not. You can critisize it or you can change the direction of the progress. It's up to you
https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-...
It ends up for instance that Steve Jobs was right about Dropbox - it is a feature not a product.
YCombinator is about products, not technologies, so their example is not suitable here. Agents is a technology. They have fundamental advantage over premade software. They are already here and they are doing valuable work. They will stay for the near future. You can argue against reasons to use particular agents or particular products built around them, or particular features, but not against the whole technology.
The technology is verified, we need to find the way to make it safer and more sustainable. This would require to solve many technical tasks: build safeguards, create eco-friendly energy production, solve explainability, build physical infrastructure, develop new technical standards, etc.