A few years ago, the most powerful AI tools in a developer’s
workflow helped write code.Today, they can do much more.It’s
increasingly common to hand an AI agent a task like:
Read this repository, refactor the authentication service to match the new specification, run the test suite, and open a pull request if everything passes.
The agent reads files, analyzes dependencies, executes commands,
modifies code, and interacts with external systems.In many cases,
it can complete meaningful chunks of engineering work with minimal
supervision.