One way of seeing agentic coding (machine in the driver's seat) is as a continuation of the erosion of the mental model of the system, where on one end of the spectrum we have mob programming (continuous strong consistency/alignment of a shared mental model) and on the other agentic coding (dissolves not just the shared mental model, but even the individual one).

In between (from mob to agentic) are promiscuous pairing → pairing → work in isolation (individual) + async reviews → agentic coding.