Subj : Are developers letting AI take over?
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Mar 10 2026 10:23:50

  Re: Are developers letting AI take over?
  By: Dumas Walker to All on Mon Feb 23 2026 12:56 pm

 DW> Anthropic claims half of its agent tool calls are to do with software
 DW> engineering - so are developers letting AI take over?

I've noticed a lot of companies that do software engineering are pushing for their employees to be familiar with using AI coding tools to help out with their software development tasks and increase productivity.  So I think it's at least partly due to company managers & executives wanting higher productivity (meaning lower development costs, since time is money).

I've been playing with some AI coding tools recently, and I do think they're good enough now where they can do some actual work for you and save time & effort.  But you still need to check its output, especially for larger tasks.

I think one of the nicest things, though, is that the AI tools can help you fix build failures.  It can be tedious to try to find out what could be causing errors during a build process and fix them all.

Nightfox

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