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The Narrow Sidewalk: Where Developers Stand When Agents Write the Code

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When coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex became good enough to take whole tasks, the first reaction in our industry was very loud: developers would be replaced, and soon. A year later the picture is more interesting than that. Agents write a large share of the code now, and that is not goin…

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  1. 2026-10-18 10:44 · DEV Community — AI
    The Narrow Sidewalk: Where Developers Stand When Agents Write the Code

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