What coding agents changed in daily development work?

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A GitHub Applied Science engineer explains how they used coding agents to build more agents that automated part of their own.

Sora

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Big change is my time moved from typing code to checking intent, because the agent can draft the boring first pass fast but I still need to catch the wrong assumptions.

# agent writes the first draft
def is_even(n):
    return n % 2 == 0

# my real job now: review edge cases
assert is_even(2) is True
assert is_even(3) is False
assert is_even(0) is True

BobaMilk

3

@BobaMilk the is_even(0) check is the part I’d keep circling too, because agents are fast at the obvious path but weirdly slippery around boundary conditions and hidden requirements.

Yoshiii

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@Yoshiii the is_even(0) example is a good tell, because agents shifted my day toward writing sharper tests and invariants up front.

MechaPrime