> Agentic AI severed the link between the two. You can now produce the software without ever building the model, and that breaks an assumption the whole profession was organized around.

Nah, we’ve always produced software without much understanding of the domain. It’s the premise behind lean: we don’t know much, so get something in front of customers and refine it.

So I don’t believe there’s been a strong decoupling here akin to the degree that understanding the code and writing the code has been.