// The Pragmatic Engineer · 17 March 2026

Are AI agents actually slowing us down?

As more software engineers use AI agents daily, there’s also more sloppy software, outages, quality issues, and even a slowdown in shipping velocity. What’s happening, and how do we solve it?

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