Human-Code Divergence

Human-Code Divergence is a new class of problem unique to agentic coding. The developer stops writing code directly and instead describes what they want to an agent that writes it. Over time, a gap opens: the developer knows less and less about how their own codebase works. They know what it does but not how. They can describe features but can't trace bugs. They own the product but not the implementation. This isn't inherently bad — abstraction is how all engineering progresses — but it becomes dangerous when the developer can't review, understand, or override the agent's work.