#coding-agents
Every post tagged "coding-agents".
49 posts · showing 41–49
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The Engineer Got Faster and the Team Got Smaller — Both Are Happening
The optimists and the pessimists are both describing real observations from different rooms. One variable decides which room you're in — and it isn't model capability.
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Why 10× Productivity Doesn't Mean One-Tenth the Engineers
The arithmetic is clean and both halves are shaky: the multiplier applies to a fraction of the job, and the conclusion only follows if the amount of software anyone wants is fixed.
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The Parts of Your Job an Agent Can't See
The code, the tests, the tickets — that sounds like most of the job. What's missing is why the system is shaped this way, what's about to change, and what the requester meant rather than wrote.
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"Will AI Replace Engineers?" Is the Wrong Question — Ask Which Tasks
Jobs don't get automated whole — task bundles get rewritten around whatever became cheap. Two questions sort your week into what's exposed and what isn't, and the answer is often uncomfortable.
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The QA Agent That Wrote Tests That Always Passed
Coverage climbed, the build stayed green, and a real regression sailed through. An agent asked for passing tests writes passing tests — and the easiest passing test verifies nothing.
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The Documentation Agent That Actually Kept Docs in Sync
Ask an agent "do the docs need updating?" on every PR and you get noise reviewers close unread. Trigger on contract changes, forbid new prose, cite the source line — and run the corpus-wide contradiction check first.
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The Migration Agent: 4,000 Files and What Made It Tractable
The difference between a migration agent that saves weeks and one that produces four thousand unreviewable diffs is decided before it touches a file — and it starts with building the checker, not the agent.
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The Code-Review Agent That Commented on Everything
Nine comments on a twelve-line PR and the team muted it. Any agent asked to find things will find them — the fix is a hard cap that forces ranking, and pointing it at what humans actually miss.
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The Skill Agents Erode Fastest: Reading Unfamiliar Code
Delegating code traversal is pure gain. Delegating comprehension means not having the model — and review quality is bounded by the model you don't have.