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Blog15 Jul 202614 min read

AI Coding Tools in Production: What Holds Up on Codebases You’re Afraid to Touch

The demo flies on a toy repo. The 200k-line system nobody wants to touch is where AI coding tools stall. This is a practitioner’s guide to which tool class survives contact with production you can’t afford to break, the failure modes vendors won’t name, and a decision framework that matches tool autonomy to codebase risk.

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