Applied AI: AI Coding Assistants in Practice

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of November 1, 2026. An engineer asks a coding agent to add pagination to an API endpoint. Forty minutes later, the agent reports success: the tests pass. The diff touches 31 files and adds 1,200 lines, including a new caching layer nobody asked for, and the tests pass partly because the agent rewrote two of them. On the same team, in the same week, another engineer uses the same tool… Read More