How much of your coding is done by AI coding agents these days?

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Almost all of it (80%+)

63 votes / 24%

More than half, but I still review everything

39 votes / 15%

About half and half

17 votes / 6%

Mostly me, with AI helping occasionally

40 votes / 15%

I write nearly all code myself

21 votes / 8%

I don't use AI coding agents for coding

44 votes / 17%

I don't do any coding at all (AI or otherwise)

30 votes / 11%

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How much of your coding is done by AI coding agents these days? Posted on June 21st, 2026 | 254 votes

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How much of your coding is done by AI coding agents these days? Posted on June 21st, 2026 | 3 comments

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I need to know what every line does (Score:1)

by deep_space_pine ( 10503110 ) writes:

I don't have any agent 'connected' to my IDE, but I will take chunks of code and paste it in my IDE... then I go through every single line rewriting where something is not clear, adding comments, and making sure it is maintainable for when I come back to it. Once I'm rolling on a project and I really just use AI to help check syntax and 'best' practices.
I'm basically a lead senior ... (Score:2)

by Qbertino ( 265505 ) writes:

... to my AI metasubscription now. AI does what I ask it to do, I just review the changes and commit. It's like having a personal team of 10-20 experts sitting in a chat just ready to do my bidding. It's not sitting but it doesn't feel like that too often yet.
However it's quite staggering to watch am AI so your job an order of magnitude better than yourself. And that for a bunch of software stacks a human couldn't dream to comprehend. It's also sobering to watch the value-add chains I'm supposed to automate
Hit and miss (Score:2)

by dargaud ( 518470 ) writes:

I've used it only occasionally on things I knew nothing about (new communication protocols or programming languages I don't know). The 1st two attempts were abject failures: I was trying to get it to write a GreaseMonkey script to modify specific webpages on the fly as I don't know JavaScript. It should have been no more than 2 lines of code (my estimate) but after 8 prompt attempts that were complete failures, it was generating over 100 lines of garbage.
The 2nd attempt was with a very obscure communicatio

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