14 Days of Intensive “Agentic Coding”: What I Learned from Working with IBM Bob, an Agentic IDE

This post shares lessons from a 14-day engineering project using IBM Bob’s Agentic IDE. It is not a product review or benchmark, but a personal experience report about how intensive Agentic Coding changed the author’s engineering behavior. A central observation is the “Navigation System Syndrome”: as trust in the Agentic IDE increased, the author worked at a higher abstraction level and inspected fewer implementation details. The post explores why continuous specification management, verification, documentation, observability, Engineering Provenance, and human responsibility remain essential when AI becomes a more capable part of software engineering.

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