Why AI Coding Agents Fail Senior Engineers (And What I Built to Fix It)
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Why AI Coding Agents Fail Senior Engineers (And What I Built to Fix It) AI coding agents are impressive. They know a thousand libraries. They can implement anything you describe in seconds. And that's exactly the problem. The Speed Trap You describe a feature. The agent produces code. You ship it. It works. For a while. Then the requirements change. The team grows. The system scales. The codebase becomes unmaintainable in ways that feel mysterious but are entirely predictable. The code worked. The architecture was never designed. I've been there.