Since late 2025, developers have increasingly relied on AI coding agents, but the author distinguishes between personal and production work: for personal projects, they skip code review, but for production code they remain deeply involved—understanding requirements, reviewing diffs, and maintaining system knowledge to diagnose and fix bugs when things break. The author argues developers should be responsible humans in the loop rather than becoming mere proxies.
Wcagent is a tool that lets users leverage their ChatGPT subscription for coding tasks by connecting to eligible AI services through authorized methods. It includes features for retrying failed operations, testing, and managing concurrency risks.
Lodestar is a Mac workspace for managing Claude Code and Codex agents that enables users to read, respond to, and organize coding work more naturally. The product guides users from initial ideas through implementation by keeping feedback and decisions contextually attached to their work.
Chat On Steroids is an open-source tool that lets ChatGPT Pro users access coding capabilities through regular Chat conversations instead of Codex, using a separate token allowance. The setup involves connecting ChatGPT to a local folder via an MCP tunnel and a Mac app, allowing the model to read, edit, and execute commands with explicit user approval.