Comment by simonw

I've avoided working directly on safety critical software throughout my career because the idea that my mistakes could hurt people frightens me.

I genuinely feel less nervous about working on those categories of software if I can bring coding agents along for the ride, because I'm confident I can use those tools to help me write software that's safer and less likely to have critical bugs.

Armed with coding agents I can get to 100% test coverage, and perform things like fuzz testing, and get second and third opinions on designs, and have conversations about failure patterns that I may not personally have considered.

For me, coding agents represent the ability for me to use techniques that were previously constrained by my time. I get more time now.