Fortune 100 firms still shun coding agents — but engineers have likely smuggled them in already
chrisalbon · x · 2026-10-29
Dean Ball notes he occasionally runs into Fortune 100 firms that have not adopted coding agents at all, arguing enterprise adoption is still very early. Chris Albon pushes back: whenever he hears this, he immediately wonders how many of those companies' engineers secretly adopted the tools long ago — bottom-up usage likely outpaces official policy.
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