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Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025

Five essential perspectives that cut through AI hype: from developer evolution stages to junior learning crises, productivity reality checks, platform disruption, and MCP server pitfalls

We track developers’ evolution from AI skeptics to strategists, examine how juniors are losing fundamental skills, reality-check the 10x productivity myths, and explore why both platform monopolies and MCP server proliferation may be dead ends. Austin presents a visionary thesis on how AI will fundamentally restructure the software industry, shifting from today’s platform monopolies to tomorrow’s ecosystem of small, custom applications built on open protocols. This radical vision complements our exploration of role transformation by imagining not just how engineers will work differently, but how the entire software ecosystem will restructure around AI’s ability to make custom development trivially cheap, potentially ending the era of platform monopolies.

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