Category: coding agent
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Source line length before coding agents
Will coding agent generated source code contain the same consistent patterns of behaviors that appear in human written source? A brief analysis would suggest that the answer is: Yes. LLM training data is human written code, and coding agents are generating code to implement the functionality that developers would have otherwise implemented themselves. Some coding…
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Software effort estimation in 2026
It’s 2.5 years since my 2024 post summarizing what I knew about software effort estimation. For ongoing projects the role of estimation is as a planning tool, breaking down a large chunk of work into what are estimated to be small, well-defined, chunks. With two-thirds of estimates being within a factor of four (over or…