Why AI Coding Agents Need Multiple Personalities to Do Their Best Work
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Something curious is happening with AI coding agents. Developers have started telling me they’re asking these coding agents to take on different personas so they behave like of a team than an individual programmer. For instance, a developer creating a software product feature will first tell their AI coding product - whether it be Gemini or Codex - to act as a “product manager” that creates a document outlining what the feature is meant to do.