What's wrong (and right) with AI coding agents
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What's wrong (and right) with AI coding agents
"This is a state where we see that the teams that move fastest will be the ones with clear tests, tight review policies, automated enforcement and reliable merge paths. Those guardrails are what make AI useful. If your systems can automatically catch mistakes, enforce standards, and prove what changed and why, then you can safely let agents do the heavy lifting. If not, you're just accelerating risk,"
"Agents can crank out more proposed changes in a day than a human team used to ship in a week. Code development itself is no longer the bottleneck, but trust is. When change becomes abundant, confidence becomes scarce.... and if you can't trust what's being generated, speed just turns into chaos,"
Agentic AI can produce far more proposed code changes than human teams, shifting the primary bottleneck from code creation to trust. Abundant automated changes reduce confidence in outputs and can convert velocity into chaos. Effective guardrails are required, including clear tests, tight review policies, automated enforcement, and reliable merge paths. CI-style controls enable safe delegation of heavy coding tasks to agents by catching mistakes, enforcing standards, and proving what changed and why. Without such controls, automation increases operational and security risk rather than productivity.
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