AI coding agents are moving beyond autocomplete. The interesting part isn’t that they can generate code. It’s that they can now work across an entire repository. Read the codebase. Trace dependencies. Inspect existing patterns. Modify multiple files. Run tests. Read the failures. Iterate. That changes the engineering problem. You’re no longer designing prompts for a single code generation task. You’re building a system that can plan, use tools, maintain context, recover from errors and verify its own work. The next wave of developer tooling will be built around this loop.. understand → plan → execute → test → inspect → iterate That’s a much more interesting engineering problem than autocomplete.