Teaching an agent to auto-fix bugs
I was very skeptical of AI to begin with. Part of me suspected the technology wasn't as capable as the hype would suggest, while another part was deeply worried that it was far more capable than I wanted to admit.
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I was very skeptical of AI to begin with. Part of me suspected the technology wasn't as capable as the hype would suggest, while another part was deeply worried that it was far more capable than I wanted to admit.
Agents are becoming capable of doing more of the work involved in building software, but they’re still mostly individual productivity tools, useful to one person at a time.
Like a lot of people who build software, I felt the ground shift at the start of 2026. The models got better, the agents got better with them, and almost overnight the amount of code moving through my team went up.