Developer Mario Zechner Argues for Slowing Down Agentic Coding Workflows

Summary

Mario Zechner, a developer, coach, and speaker, published a detailed critique of current agentic coding practices roughly one year after coding agents became capable of building full projects. The post, titled 'Thoughts on slowing the fuck down,' outlines problems with how developers are using AI coding agents, arguing that 'everything is broken' in the current approach. Zechner identifies specific failure modes including compounding errors with zero learning, the absence of bottlenecks that wou