Core Pain Point of AI Coding Agents: Unobservable State

Developers highlight that the core flaw of current AI coding agents is their inability to directly observe and manipulate underlying states. Inspired by Bret Victor's classic essay, they argue that software states should be persistent, visible entities rather than just code.

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