I Let an AI Agent Build an App While I Watched. Software Development May Never Be the Same.

Three years ago, developers wrote code. Today, they're managing AI. Tomorrow, they might simply describe what they want. That future is arriving faster than most people realize. Last week, I spent several hours testing modern AI coding agents. Not chatbots that answer coding questions. Actual agents capable of planning tasks, writing code, debugging errors, installing dependencies, and making decisions with minimal human intervention. The experience felt less like using software and more like ma...