Agentic engineering feels like DevOps to me rather than coding.

I dislike DevOps because the feedback loop is quite long with DevOps and it's very declarative rather than imperative. Proper agentic engineering is like that; you don't actually build the thing with the agent, you build the things around the agent that's building the thing.

The skills, the MCP connections, the auth flows and handling, the CI, the deployment strategy, the code review, etc.

I think that's why it doesn't feel as "fun" if you are used to actual coding: long feedback loop from you creating/modifying the scaffolding to actually seeing it connect to an output. I liken it to waiting for CloudFormation to deploy your infra -- like watching paint dry.