Overview
Experience without experimentation can become a constraint. A senior developer who refuses to use agentic tools may fail to capture the available leverage. Tool fluency without fundamentals creates the opposite problem: high output without enough judgment to structure or verify it.
Wisdom cannot be reduced completely to a skill file. A procedure can encode questions and checks, but it cannot reproduce every contextual judgment developed by operating inside a particular organization, product, or codebase.
The implication is not that the human must know every syntactic detail. Tactical details can be delegated. The human must know enough about the domain to make strategic decisions and recognize when the agent's work is unsafe, incoherent, or irrelevant.