AI Coding
Coding agents and assistants used on a real repository: briefs, reviews, cost, and the edits you still make yourself.
- Jul- 2026 -2 July
Mistakes of Accepting the First Agent Diff
A coding agent finishes its run, prints a diff, and the reviewer clicks approve in under a minute. The change is small, the tests are green, and the explanation reads plausibly.
Read More » - Jun- 2026 -25 June
How Much of the Spec an Agent Needs Before It Writes Code
A coding agent handed a one-line ticket will produce something. That much is guaranteed.
Read More » - Jun- 2026 -20 June
Privacy Checks Before You Paste Proprietary Code into a Model
A paste is a small act. Four seconds of keystrokes, a flick of the wrist, and a function, a schema, a billing routine, or a database migration leaves the building.
Read More » - May- 2026 -27 May
How to Debug a Function You Did Not Write
The function arrives as a block of somebody else's decisions. Forty lines, maybe a hundred, a name that suggests one job and a body that does three.
Read More » - May- 2026 -4 May
What an Agent Needs Before It Can See Your Repo
The repository sits on a disk somewhere, and to the agent it is a dark room.
Read More » - Apr- 2026 -26 April
What AI Coding Assistants Cost a Five-Person Team
Five developers, one shared codebase, and a monthly software bill that quietly grew a line item nobody planned for.
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