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The off-switch was never a button

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Last night, while I was asleep, an AI agent spent the better part of eight hours writing code in one of my repositories. It pulled a task off a spec, wrote the code, ran the tests, and left a merge request with my name on it, waiting for me to read over coffee. If that makes you reach for the word…

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  1. 2026-09-14 06:54 · DEV Community — AI
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