Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents: An Engineering Retrospective
bryanmikaelian · hn · 2026-08-27
The author details their experience of writing code exclusively using AI agents over six months. The post explores the impact on development efficiency, code quality, and debugging workflows, highlighting both the advantages and limitations of agents in complex systems, and summarizes how to adjust engineering processes to maximize the utility of AI coding assistants.
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