Agentic AI is rewriting how software ships. Assistants draft pull requests, agents open migrations, and review bots claim a change is safe before a human finishes coffee. The industry often frames this as a path to fewer people in quality. That framing is backward. When machines author more of the codebase, the scarce skill is not generation. It is independent verification. The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey found that 84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in…