A mid-2026 audit of top-down AI-assisted software engineering shows agents absorbing implementation work on schedule, with SWE-bench Verified scores rising from 1.96% in October 2023 to near saturatio…
Legacy codebases encode organizational history in formats that AI agents cannot safely interpret, leading to architectural hallucinations when agents apply public-code patterns to enterprise systems. …
The rise of AI coding tools has created a split between maintainers who ban AI-generated contributions to protect scarce review bandwidth and developers who embrace agents for rapid prototyping. A 202…
The cost of drafting code has collapsed with AI agents, but the cost of verifying that code remains high, creating a permanent asymmetry that threatens software reliability. Kent Beck's "Tidy First?" …