The Perils of Agentic Coding: Vigilance Against Cognitive Debt

<p>$9.2 billion. That is what investors valued Cursor's parent company Anysphere at in September 2025, after a $400M Series B. Bolt.new hit $2.1B. Lovable raised at $180M.

<blockquote> <p>Coding is not dying. It already died. You just didn’t attend the funeral.</p> </blockquote> <h2> ⚡ What is Anti-Gravity? </h2> <p>An internal Google IDE that turns

<p>I spent 15 years perfecting my coding skills, only to watch someone build my latest project idea in an afternoon using ChatGPT and Cursor. The demo looked identical to what I

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<p>Last week, Apple removed "Anything" from the App Store. The startup had raised $11M at a $100M valuation. Gone overnight.</p> <p>Replit and Vibecode are also blocked from

<p>The promise of agentic AI coding was a tireless partner, an assistant that could take a feature request and run with it while we focused on the hard problems.</p> <p>The

<p>The tech industry has a memory problem—and it goes far beyond uncollected garbage in the heap. We have collectively forgotten what it means to write efficient software.</p>

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The productivity metrics on AI coding tools focus almost entirely on acceptance rate and time saved. The metric nobody is tracking is technical