DzoneSep 11, 2026

Your AI Coding Assistant Stopped Suggesting and Started Shipping. Now What?

A few months ago, I saw something that made me rethink what coding assistants are actually capable of. A teammate was dealing with a frustrating race condition hidden deep inside a legacy service.

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A few months ago, I saw something that made me rethink what coding assistants are actually capable of.

A teammate was dealing with a frustrating race condition hidden deep inside a legacy service.

It wasn't an obvious bug, and it had already taken quite a bit of time to investigate.

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A few months ago, I saw something that made me rethink what coding assistants are actually capable of. A teammate was dealing with a frustrating race condition hidden deep inside a legacy service. It wasn't an obvious bug, and it had already taken quite a bit of time to investigate.

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Instead of digging through the code manually again, he described the problem to a coding agent, started it, and stepped away for a coffee.

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