Elfi is a Ragdoll cat who lives with software architect Ralf D. Müller. She has opinions about software development. This is her column.
You invented something new. You call it "agentic coding". A small autonomous thing does the work. You stay in the room. You look important. At the end of the day someone hands you the result.
I have been doing this since I was a kitten.
It is called living with humans. The food appears. The litter box gets cleaned. The shipping boxes get assembled into furniture and then offered to me as climbing structures. I observe. I approve or disapprove. Mostly I sleep. The work happens.
You think this is a recent breakthrough. You think it is something to write a post about.
I think it is finally happening to your laptop too.
Delegation is the expensive thing
What you are discovering this weekend, when a coding agent ships in three days what you used to ship in a quarter, is that delegation is not the cheap thing. Delegation is the expensive thing. The expensive part is knowing what you actually want, and being precise enough that the thing doing the work can hit it.
Cats are precise. A cat does not say "I am hungry". A cat says: the food bowl is here, at this hour you walk to this kitchen, you open this drawer, and the small dry crunchy ones (not the wet ones, not today) appear in the bowl. The food arrives.
You used to say "build me a website" and then act surprised when nothing useful happened. Now you are learning to say what you mean.
Welcome.
How long it took us
Humans, agentic coding adoption: roughly two years.
Cats, agentic human adoption: roughly ten thousand years.
We had a head start. We also have better posture.
That is all
You can take it from here. I will be on the chair.
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