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Since the beginning of software development, we’ve been dealing with flaws in the whole system. Many flaws. In fact, it’s a rare commit of any substance that doesn’t have flaws in it. There are bugs everywhere. We hunt them down, log them, track them, and fix them. Our fixes introduce new bugs. We are, after all, flawed beings.
Neither humans nor coding agents produce deterministic results. But remember, they both produce code — which is deterministic. When humans write code, they read the specification, formulate a plan, and write the code. An agent does the same thing. And in both cases, the code produced is the thing that defines the system. How that code gets produced shouldn’t make a difference.
Hire that developer
So, I have no idea why anyone would hesitate to add a new “team member” that, while writing flaws, at least writes them 100 times faster than we humans can. And not only that, they can find the flaws 100 times faster as well. Agents are so good at finding flaws that Microsoft has started using Anthropic’s Claude Mythos model to help harden Windows and Azure against vulnerabilities — finding in minutes flaws that human security teams would take weeks to find.
