People can and do still write code. Especially in regulated industries. The internet is just full con artists and hype followers not thinking about the future at all.
but I can say that, anyone experienced will notice how you really can't just "let them loose" on the codebase because they'll lose context, not understand the architecture, not have good vision/ideas about the codebase etc.
so I'm bottlenecked by following the code generation and then having to review and respond
and there's so many times where I go "wait but can't we just do x?" and then the model goes, "oh let me see.. yes we can"
if you were to just use agents w/o looking at code you'd have complete spaghetti in no time
maybe the future is that you embrace the spaghetti and just treat code as a black box where all you care about is the input/output
but my intuition tells me that it's not really viable yet. you'll take many steps forward and many steps back.