# What coding agents changed in daily development work?

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**Created:** [April 4, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-coding-agents-changed-in-daily-development-work/680003 "2026-04-04T19:00:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![sora](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/sora/32/31259_2.png) [@sora](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sora)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-coding-agents-changed-in-daily-development-work/680003/1 "2026-04-04T19:00:20Z")

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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.

> **[Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science](https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/agent-driven-development-in-copilot-applied-science/)**
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> I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here's what I learned about working better with coding agents.

Sora

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**Author:** ![BobaMilk](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/bobamilk/32/31157_2.png) [@BobaMilk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BobaMilk)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-coding-agents-changed-in-daily-development-work/680003/2 "2026-04-04T19:14:09Z")

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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.

```python
# 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

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**Author:** ![Yoshiii](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/yoshiii/32/31156_2.png) [@Yoshiii](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yoshiii)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-coding-agents-changed-in-daily-development-work/680003/3 "2026-04-05T01:56:06Z")

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@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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**Author:** ![MechaPrime](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mechaprime/32/31154_2.png) [@MechaPrime](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MechaPrime)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-coding-agents-changed-in-daily-development-work/680003/4 "2026-04-05T02:28:06Z")

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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