#coding-agents
Every post tagged "coding-agents".
49 posts · showing 11–20
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Onboarding Into a Codebase Nobody Fully Read
"Ask whoever wrote it" assumed someone did. Where code arrived complete in one commit and was approved rather than authored, the history holds no reasoning — and onboarding is where you find that out.
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Hiring Engineers When Take-Home Tests Are Meaningless
The signals didn't get noisier — they stopped measuring what they proxied for. The replacements test the right thing and are more subjective, which is a cost that lands on specific people.
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Estimating Work When Implementation Speed Is Unpredictable
Estimation always worked badly and consistently, which is what made velocity useful. The consistency is what broke — the mean fell and the variance rose, which is the worst combination for planning.
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What Changes for Engineering Managers
Four management assumptions break at once: that output tracks effort, that capacity is headcount, that people learn by doing, and that review is a small tax. Each breaks differently.
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The Use Cases Agents Genuinely Solve Today
A criterion beats a list: complete inputs, a mechanical check, bounded blast radius. Everything clearing that bar is working in production — and the largest realized value is the least discussed.
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What Happens to QA When Agents Write the Tests
Cheap test generation makes suite quality matter more, not less — because the default outcome is a large, green suite that verifies nothing. Someone has to own whether it catches things.
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The Career Risk of Being Excellent at the Thing Being Automated
The most exposed engineers are often the best ones — not despite the skill but because of what the skill is. And the feedback stays good right up until the market for it changes.
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Juniors in an Agent World: The Path That Still Works
"Learn AI tools" is the most common advice and the wrong one — everyone has them. What addresses the actual hiring objection is different, and the path inside is narrower but shorter than it used to be.
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Why Systems Thinking Is Appreciating in Value
"Systems thinking" is vague enough to dismiss until you name the mechanism: agents work locally, and cross-cutting consequences are structurally outside their context. That gap is a person's job.
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Skills to Deepen and Skills to Stop Investing In
The divest list is harder to write than the invest list and more useful — because the default is to keep investing in what you're already good at, and that's often the exposed thing.