I gave my AI coding agent 10 senior-dev instincts
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AI coding agents are like a junior who read every textbook and shipped nothing: fast, confident, and wrong in ways that cost you an afternoon. The senior engineers I've learned the most from aren't valuable because they type fast. It's their instincts — the things they do before and after the code: they push back when you ask for the wrong thing they don't say "done" until they've actually run it they try to break their own code before it ships they ask the one question that saves a week of…
1Key Takeaways
- AI coding agents are like a junior who read every textbook and shipped nothing: fast, confident, and wrong in ways that cost you an afternoon.
- The senior engineers I've learned the most from aren't valuable because they type fast.
- It's their instincts — the things they do before and after the code: they push back when you ask for the wrong thing they don't say "done" until they've actually run it they try to break their own code before it ships they ask the one question that saves a week of….
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that aI coding agents are like a junior who read every textbook and shipped nothing: fast, confident, and wrong in ways that cost you an afternoon.
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