Why Coding Agents Aren't Delivering the Promised Gains for Engineering - Yet
TechRadar, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Coding agents generate code quickly, but the bottleneck has shifted to understanding, debugging and investigating incidents in that code.
This TechRadar Pro piece argues that vibe coding agents let engineers create code in a fraction of the time, which moves the bottleneck later in the development process.
As agents produce ever larger volumes of code, engineers find it harder to work out what the code does and how it interacts with surrounding systems.
The author says agents struggle with large, complex code bases, and that realizing productivity gains requires applying AI to the later stages of the cycle, such as tracking down bugs and investigating incidents, not just code generation.