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Why Engineering Students Should Use an AI Pair Programmer (Not an Autonomous Agent)

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If you are studying Computer Science or Software Engineering today, you are surrounded by a tempting shortcut: drop your assignment into an autonomous AI agent, watch it edit five files, let it run your compiler in the background, and hand in the result. It works—until you sit down for a whiteboard…

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  1. 2026-10-26 15:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Why Engineering Students Should Use an AI Pair Programmer (Not an Autonomous Agent)

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