Mapping the Flood: The Proliferation of AI Agents

The Compounding Question Evidence from coding agents - the steady march of benchmark scores past seventy-seven percent resolution of real-world software issues - nstrates that agents can already write and modify software with substantial autonomy. An agent can read a repository, diagnose a bug, write a patch, and verify the fix. Not perfectly. Not always. But reliably enough that the practice has become unremarkable. The step from “agent writes code” to “agent writes agent” is a matter of degree, not kind.