Deep Codebase Knowledge Is Key to Taming AI Coding Agents

Developers argue that mastery of a codebase's internals determines how well one can manage AI coding agents. Deep understanding upfront costs more but enables fast, healthy iteration, and humans should still 'own the code'.

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