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title: "AI coding agents vs. big balls of mud"
date: 2026-08-26
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description: "Yesterday’s big sprawling piles of convoluted code were built on years of rushed features and coding shortcuts. Coding agents promise to end all of that."
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# AI coding agents vs. big balls of mud

Yesterday’s big sprawling piles of convoluted code were built on years of rushed features and coding shortcuts. Coding agents promise to end all of that.

*Published: 2026-08-26*