Coding Agents

2026
Most teams measure AI impact on software delivery the same way: before and after comparisons on tasks that were already in the plan. A migration that used to take three weeks now takes two days. A bug that took a week to diagnose gets resolved in an afternoon. These are real wins.
There’s a growing belief in engineering circles that because coding agents can generate code so cheaply and quickly, we no longer need to invest in platform frameworks, services, and shared systems. The argument goes something like: code is essentially free now, so why bother with reusable building blocks? Just let agents generate what you need on the fly.
League (my day job) recently enabled mandatory GitHub Copilot code reviews on all pull requests. Not that long ago, I would not have supported this idea. Models, and the agent systems that use the models, have improved to the point of frequently finding non-trivial issues with code in a pull request.