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Hot take: AI coding agents aren't making senior developers faster

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I've started wondering whether AI coding agents are actually improving developer productivity at the senior level, or whether they're just moving the work to a different part of the process. For smaller tasks, the productivity gain feels obvious. Generate some boilerplate, write tests, refactor som…

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  1. 2026-08-27 11:04 · r/learnmachinelearning
    Hot take: AI coding agents aren't making senior developers faster
  2. 2026-08-27 10:48 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    Hot take: AI coding agents aren't making senior developers faster

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