When the Bot Is Your Pair: 7 Team Rituals That Make AI Coding Agents Actually Work
The first time it worked, it felt like magic. I typed half a sentence, and the AI filled in the rest, tests, edge cases, even doc comments. Like a dream you didn’t know you had until it showed up in your IDE. But two weeks in, the cracks appeared. The AI rewrote a query using a non-existent ORM method. It silently introduced a regression in a caching layer. It suggested mocking the wrong dependency, and no one caught it, because the PR still “looked fine.” What started as magic began to feel more like auto-pilot without a destination. ...